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Lecturer  

The tutorials are given by Anatoly Konechny,  who will be happy  to help with any questions you may have about the workshops. Feel free to email him at A.Konechny@ma.hw.ac.uk or visit him in  Colin Maclaurin building room T09.

Aims   

This section of the course is an introduction to the algebraic manipulation, numerical calculation and graph plotting computer package ``Maple'', which is a useful aid to doing mathematical calculations and visualizing their  results. We will investigate how to use Maple to help us by using a selection of  typical calculations from your first year courses.
 

The course consists of three 2 week sections. In each section a tutorial sheet will be give out in the first week covering all the material in that section. You should work through the tutorial during the workshop  and in your own time. The second week of each section is a timed assessment containing similar questions to those on the tutorial. You are expected to hand in a printed version of your assessment solutions at the end of the workshop. The three assessments carry an equal weighting of marks and in total contribute 15 % of the final mark for module F7.1SC3.

The tutorial sessions and the assessment sessions alternate with the tutorials given on weeks 1,3,5 and the assessments held on weeks 2,4,7. Note there are no workshops in week 6 this year due to University
holidays.

Syllabus

 The course is divided into three sections:

• Introduction. Maple as a calculator. Expressions. Plotting.
• Algebra. Algebraic expressions. Solving equations. Matrices and linear algebra.
• Calculus. Limits, differentiation and integration. Solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and recurrence relations.

Location 

The classes are being held in rooms 12/13/14 on the ground floor of Scott Russel building

Books and Notes

You will be provided with course notes so you should not need any text books for this part of the module. Those of you in the Mathematics Department who  take the advanced Maple course in second year might find a book useful to cover  this year and next. Other students might find a book helpful to explore and use
Maple in future.

There are lots of Maple books available including " First Steps in Maple" by W. Burkhardt and "Introduction to Maple" by A. Heck. Browse through them and see if they make sense to you before buying! For home use the package "Student Edition of Maple"  is also available, this consists of a cut-down version of the full Maple programme and various introductory Maple books and reference guides. It currently sells for about 100 £. The full version of Maple, which  we are using here, is considerably more expensive!