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itsme — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:17:07 Z

1) Maple has a "Physics" package which you might find useful (see http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=Physics/* ). You can check the help-page to see what can be done with it and it may do what you need, but I have had some issues when dealing with operators acting on different Hilbert spaces (you can search mapleprimes for details). To a large extent QM is just linear algebra with complex numbers (ha!), so you can also do A LOT with the LinearAlgebra package.
2) The answer will depend on what it is you want to do. Personally, I use Maple daily, and I work in QM.

I cannot answer your questions 3-5, because I've only had a very limited experience with Mathcad.

I might add, that one feature which is very useful for physics in general (but unfortunately rather limited in Maple) is the "Explore" command, which lets you dynamically vary multiple parameters of a plot (or a solution). Its equivalent (but much more versatile) command in Mathematica (called Manipulate), is the main reason, why many people I know use Mathematica instead of Maple. I really hope Maplesoft updates "Explore" at one stage... but perhaps that's another story for another post.

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Christopher2222 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:41:09 Z

All versions of Maple, Student, Personal and Professional are fully functional and do not differ in functionality. The only difference being price and the ability to spread across multiple machines over a network.

@Christopher2222 Thanks. Your input is greatly

wiyosaya — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:02:46 Z

@Christopher2222 Thanks. Your input is greatly appreciated

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@Christopher2222 Thanks. Your input is greatly