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Getting Started with Mathematica

Getting Started with Mathematica. by Hakan Kutucu. What is Mathematica. Mathematica is a computer program created by Wolfram Research In c.(1988) Mathematica is a powerful desktop computer program capable of doing algebraic calculations, numerical approximations, and computer graphics.

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Getting Started with Mathematica

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  1. Getting Started with Mathematica by Hakan Kutucu

  2. What isMathematica • Mathematica is a computer program created by Wolfram Research Inc.(1988) • Mathematica is a powerful desktop computer program capable of doing algebraic calculations, numerical approximations, and computer graphics. • It is suitable for both numeric and symbolic work, and it has remarkable word-processing capabilities as well.

  3. Some Graphical Examples

  4. What isMathematica • Mathematica has two parts: the Kernel and the Front End. • The Kernelis the main part of the system, which accepts Mathematica commands, processes them and sends back results. This is called evaluating the command. • The Front Endis the part of the system that handles such things as screen display, printing and the creation of Mathematica documents.

  5. How doesMathematicawork? Mathematica documents are called Notebooks. A Notebook is a bit like a word-processor document; you can type and edit commands, send them to the Kernel for evaluation, display the results and save your work.

  6. How doesMathematicawork? • You send commands to be evaluated by holding down the “shift” key and pressing the “enter” key • Another easy way to evaluate by pressing the “enter” key at the right hand side of keyboard.

  7. Functionalities of Mathematica • Numerical Computation • Equation Solving • Symbolic calculation • Calculus • Graphics • Self-defined functions • List • Pattern Matching • Animation

  8. Mathematica Syntax • Mathematica commands start with a CAPITAL letter, e.g. Sin[x]. If the command is really severalwords in English joined together then each one starts with a capital but WithNoSpacesInBetween. • Case Sensitive: the word Fun is different from the word fun which is different from the word fuN.

  9. Mathematica Syntax • Mathematica uses a lot of brackets and all the different sorts of them, ( [ { } ] ). • Arguments of functions are given in square brackets [ ]. • Curly brackets, called “braces”, {…} are used to make a list, usually to allow several objects to betreated as one. • Expression are cascaded by () pairs.

  10. SPECIAL CONSTANTS Mathematica protects these names; they cannot be used as names for other quantities.

  11. Arithmetic Operations

  12. Arithmetic Operations Order of operation is important . BEDMAS

  13. N (Numerical) (a) N[expr] displays 6 digits by default (b) N[expr, n] displays 6 digits when n<16 (c) N[expr, n] does not display more digits than n originally has.

  14. Some Mathematical Functions

  15. Graphics Mathematica incorporates a wide range of two-and three-dimensional graphics functions. The simplest isPlot, which generates two-dimensional Cartesian graphs Plot[f, {x, xmin, xmax}] generates a plot of f as a function of x from xmin to xmax. Plot[{f1, f2, … }, {x, xmin, xmax}] plots several functions fi.

  16. Graphics (Example)

  17. Graphics(Options)

  18. Graphics(Options) For Other Options the command is Options[Plot]

  19. 3 Dimensional Plotting Plot3D[ f, {x,xmin,xmax}, {y,ymin,ymax}] will draw the graph of z = f(x,y) over the rectangle [xmin,xmax]×[ymin,ymax] in the xy-plane.

  20. 3 Dimensional Plotting(Options)

  21. Three Dimensional Plotting(Options)

  22. Defining Functions • A function may return a symbol, a real number, a complex matrix, another function.... • Any mathematical object is an acceptable value for a function. • A function may be writtenusing mathematical notation, it may be created using programming constructs (like for, if/then, etc.), or it could evenbe written in another language entirely (Fortran, C, etc.).

  23. Function & Variable Names • Mathematica variable names can be long, but they must not begin with a number, • BecauseMathematica interprets, say, 2dimension as 2 * dimension. • Names can end with a number,though: x1 is a useful way of writing in Mathematica a subscripted variable like x1. • Note also thatcombinations of letters without spaces are interpreted as new variables: ax does not mean a*x.

  24. Defining Functions A function can be defined by using the following form: f[x_] := an expression involving x (no underbar) Example: f[x_]:=x^2+3x f[4] f[a+1] ?f (This shows the definition you made for f. )

  25. Equation solving • Use Solve to solve an equation with an exact solution, including a symbolic solution. • Use NSolve or FindRoot to obtain a numerical approximation to the solution. • To use solutions need to use expr/ .x y.

  26. Matrix Defining • Entering a matrix: a={{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}} • Displays nicely only if told to:

  27. Menus exist but are harder to use than typing

  28. Matrix Operations

  29. Matrix Operations (Multiplication) Matrix multiplication (also called dot or inner product) is carried out in Mathematica with the function Dot, typically entered with a dot short-hand syntax.

  30. Matrix Operations (Transpose)

  31. Matrix Operations (Inverse)

  32. Matrix Operations Exercises • By using Solve Commabd • By using The equation Ax=b

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