Computing at Wayne State College

Linux

• Files
• Rules for file names
• Directories and subdirectories
• Root directory
• Directory names
• ls
• Home directory
• pwd
• cd
• Going Home
• Creating directories
• Move and Copy commands
• Removing directories

Gnuplot

Maxima

Octave

• Running Octave
• Simple Examples
• Arithmetic
• Creating an Array (Vector)
• Array Arithmetic
• Creating a Matrix
• Matrix Arithmetic
• Special Matrices
• Solving Linear Equations (Systems)
• Polynomials
• Plotting Polynomials
• Integrating Differential Equations
• Producing Graphical Output
• Editing What You Have Typed
• Getting Help
• Interfacing with Maxima

MuPAD

• Starting MuPAD
• Closing MuPAD and Saving Files
• Computing with Numbers
• Explanations and Help
• Exact Computations
• Numerical Approximations
• Introductory Examples
• Curve Sketching
• Identifiers and Their Values
• Substitution: subs
• Differentiation
• Integration
• Plotting Graphs
• 2-dimensional plots
• 3-dimenisonal plots
• Integration by Parts and Change of Variable

Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations

• Function Definitions
• Routines
• equations and systems
• curve fitting and function approximation
• difference quotients and quadrature(integration)
• differential equations