Transcript getting_start0911_math.ppt

Getting Started with
Mathematica
Welcome to IT’s seminar on Mathematica
Sam Gordji, [email protected]
Weir 107
General Information
• Questions will be answered during the seminar
• What is Mathematica?
“Mathematica does mathematical operations”
– Its competitors are MathWorks, Maple, and
others
– University decided on getting Mathematica
after looking into other similar packages
General Information
• Email contact
– Email your questions to
[email protected]
• Any full time student or faculty may install Mathematica from the
myOleMiss Web portal, please visit:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php?pagename=mathem
atica.inc
• Please fill out the performance report and leave your email address
so we may contact you for follow up questions
General Information
• This seminar is for beginners and covers how to
access information from UM Web as well as
from Mathematica’s Website
• MathWorld is a site supported by Mathematica
and contains solutions to many mathematical
problems
• All the work in Mathematica is performed in a
Notebook
Introduction
• Mathematica is a very powerful and user friendly
package that most students from many
disciplines may use
• Network Mathematica is a licensing program for
sites that use multiple copies of Mathematica on
a single network
• Mathematica is available to students, faculty and
staff (UM Oxford) at no cost
• IT has several articles on Mathematica. These
articles are designed to familiarize users with
different parts of Mathematica
Introduction
• The webpages for these articles and the Demo
Notebook called “Math_sem0.nb” may be
downloaded
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/educationsubpage.
php?pagename=mathcampspring08.inc
• Other IT articles on Mathematica may be
downloaded from
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/mathematica/fall_s
em/
Introduction
• Some of Mathematica’s Webpages:
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/BySubject/Mathema
tica/ApplicationPackages/
http://www.wolfram.com/services/
http://www.wolfram.com/siteinfo/
– The last one contains UM site Information and help
users to find various information such as services
available to UM users, etc.
Introduction
• Mathematica’s main function is to perform
Mathematical operations
• This seminar is based on how Mathematica is
being used at the University of Mississippi
A practical problem
• The following equation is the solution for
the Richard’s equation and yields the
amount of time needed for the saturated
surface content to reach the residual
moisture at the surface (Z=0)
2.18*((t/pi)^.5)*Exp[-t/4.] =.216
• Please note that all the parameters are
substituted in the above equation.
Y-axis is the moisture content and the x-axis rep.
depth. The graphs show how evaporation takes
place
Introduction
• Mathematica’s Startup Palette
– Lets look at First Five Minutes with
Mathematica
– Using Help finding a function
– Palette, basic_math.nb
– Math_sem0.nb
Introduction
• A fun site to visit:
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/
• UM contribution to Mathematica:
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/5961/
Tested 8/11/08