Overview
- Introduces students to the use of a leading open-source computer algebra system
- The text groups input and output so that students see precisely how Maxima commands are implemented
- Accompanied by a set of Maxima files that allow students to replicate all of the text's material and to build on that analysis
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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About this book
When it comes to problems that are too difficult to solve by hand, computer algebra systems that can perform symbolic mathematical manipulations are a valuable tool. Maxima is particularly attractive in that it is open-source, multiple-platform software that students can download and install free of charge. Lessons learned and capabilities developed using Maxima are easily transferred to other, proprietary software.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Todd Keene Timberlake is a Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Berry College in Mount Berry, GA. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. He has published several articles on using computers to teach physics and astronomy in the American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher.
J. Wilson Mixon is Dana Professor of Economics Emeritus at Berry college. Over 70 of his articles have appeared in refereed economics journals. They continue to be downloaded in significant numbers. He maintains a web site that contains a large amount of Excel-based analysis of economic principles. In the past three years, over 27,000 have visited the site.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Classical Mechanics with Maxima
Authors: Todd Keene Timberlake, J. Wilson Mixon
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3207-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Todd Keene Timberlake & J. Wilson Mixon, Jr. 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3206-1Published: 06 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3207-8Published: 06 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 258
Number of Illustrations: 156 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Classical Mechanics, General Algebraic Systems, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis