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One thing I would add for people who are new to this is you can do ??something; to get the internal help. So say I want to know how to solve ODEs in maxima, d

• seanhunter 2y ago
  Some other useful things: 1)solve to solve a system and “variable: expression” will assign that expression to that variable. You can then substitute the results into a later expression using a “,”. So you might do solns:solve([x+3*y=5,5*x-2*y=4],[x,y]); z:%e^(x,y),solns; That will solve the system and then substitute those solutions into the expression for z. 2)pi, e, and the imaginary unit are called %pi, %e and %i respectively. 3)The symbolic solver is a lot less powerful than mathematica but you can do load(“to_poly_solve”); To get a polynomial solver that will at least get you all the roots of polynomials and does better on most trigonometric equations. load(“drawdf”); Is useful for drawing vector fields, phase portraits and that type of thing. 4) you can use a single quote to delay evaluation of something. Like say you want to write a differential equation and you don’t want it to actually try to evaluate the derivative inline, you can write something like osc:‘diff(x,t,2) + r*’diff(x,t) + k*x = p*cos(omega\*t); …for a forced harmonic oscilator. Or whatever. This is useful if you want to mess with the expression a bit before you try to solve the expression (eg doing substitutions or whatnot).*