Overview of the Student Package
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Description
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The
Student package
is a collection of subpackages designed to assist
with the teaching and learning of standard
undergraduate mathematics. There are many routines
for displaying functions, computations, and theorems
in various ways. There is also support for stepping
through important computations.
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The
Student package
contains the following subpackages.
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Calculus1
single-variable calculus
LinearAlgebra
linear algebra
MultivariateCalculus
multiple-variable calculus
NumericalAnalysis
numerical analysis
Precalculus
precalculus
VectorCalculus
multiple-variable vector calculus
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The
Student package
is also designed to provide an introduction to the power of
the full Maple system. Thus, incompatibilities between
commands in the
Student subpackages
and similar commands in standard Maple are minimized and are
carefully documented.
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The
Student subpackages
make use of the Maple
infolevel feature
to provide useful feedback from many commands. To access
this facility for all the
Student subpackages
at once, use
infolevel[Student] := 1.
To access the facility for individual subpackages, use
infolevel[Student[<subpackage name>]] := 1,
for example,
infolevel[Student[Calculus1]] := 1.
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A note on boolean options: Many
of the commands in the
Student packages
take boolean options, that is, options of the form
option_name = value,
where
value is
one of
true or
false.
These options are used, for example, to control which
components are included in a plot. In all cases, the form
option_name =true can
be abbreviated as simply
option_name.
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A note on color: Many of the
commands in the
Student package
produce plots. The colors used for the various components
of these plots can be adjusted by calling the
SetColors command.
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The Maple
Command Completion facility
is helpful for entering the names of
Student package
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See Also
Command Completion,
infolevel,
Student[Calculus1],
Student[LinearAlgebra],
Student[MultivariateCalculus],
Student[NumericalAnalysis],
Student[Precalculus],
Student[VectorCalculus]
