Oct 13, 2015

Lecture 13

Modified the planetary data program to extract different data.


Today we are focusing on symbolic algebra. This screenshot shows the practice exercises we did in the beginning. The symbols and expressions are going to be used throughout the class.


Using numden() to extract the numerator and denominator of a symbolic expression.

Typing mupad opens a MuPad window.
Practice exercise
An example using solve() to symbolically solve for Q.














Solving a system of equation: originally with linear algebra, and then with solve().
This example containing free-fall and kinematics. Solve for the range.