But note the mouse-over caption! See www.xkcd.com for todays (June 11, 2008) strip. This will be printed and posted at the door that seperates the Physics Dept. from the Math Dept. at most institutions.

Tim

For a bit of light relief, head on over to the online comic strip at phdcomics.com.  If you've ever been a PhD student, be careful, this strip might make the nightmares come back...

I run Maple on a Wintel machine, specifically a Dell Dimension 9100 Mini-Tower: Pentium D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB) Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005.  I also recently acquired an OLPC.  I don't think that the OLPC will be much of a Maple platform in the near future but it does run Linux.

No, the title does not come from hornybitches.com, nor does it mean something related to sex.

To put it simply - it's about the grandkids. As anyone who is a grandparent may understand, once you have grandkids you spend time reflecting back on your own life and no matter where you've been, or what you've done, you always want them to have the opportunity to do better.

Having left school at 15 years of age    ( for somewhat noble reasons )   I never learned or had the opportunity to learn the math that I later always wished I had. My life has been so busy raising my family and working the kinds of jobs that many who use Maple will never have to work, that I never had the opportunity to spend the time to further my education.

3 Chemical Engineering laboratories in Thessaloniki (Salonica), Greece, are preparing the 9th Meeting of the Network Young Membrains (NYM) [26-28 September 2007]. The NYM has proved to be a well-established and important conference for young membrane researchers, enjoying a good response and a steadily growing interest every year. More than 700 “young membrains” from different European and occasionally non-European countries have participated in the 8 previous meetings, with more than 80 attendees participating in Rende, Italy, September 2006.

Hello,

I want to rewrite the following Matlab code to Maple

sum(Yp.*X(:,2))

and

si2(:,1)=1/2*(Y1(:,1)-Y2(:,1)).^2;

Could you help me please?

Thanks

Vladimir

I am relatively new to Maple, I use the Plot Builders for instance for my plots.
Can anyone tell me how to plot the Budget Constraint;
Income = P1*X + P2*Y
I want to do Comparitive Statics on this equation. Say, for instance change in slope when one of the prices changes.

Please render me a solution.

Thanks You,
Siddharth

Hi to All!
This is a true top secret story from Ph Dr S.Arlou

When I was a callow youth at my first year at the university I was very proud of my high rate in general course of physics. Besides I was rather good at mathematics as I was able to add fractions and find derivative of functions. I had only one thing lift to study – mechanics of materials. To my greatest disappointment I couldn’t manage with my test work on mechanics of materials after twenty attempts! The only consolation I found in the team of the same unfortunate students. It seemed to me that a student with an excellent knowledge of physics had to understand mechanics of materials. Its roots according to my brilliant conjecture™ are hidden exceptionally in physics. What’s the matter?
Years passed… More years passed… Some more time passed. All the time I tried to find the answer to my question, how mechanics of materials should be taught so that a child would be able to understand it, at least in general. During these hard meditations I had to be involved into absolutely useless things: post graduation studies, presentation of Ph.D. thesis, teaching at technical university, marriage at last. But Maple with its analytical potential burst into my life as a tornado. The answer came with a lightning speed. Mechanics of materials is short of the power of the power of analytical computing. We need as much of it as our head or laptop can contain.
In one word I invented Mechanics of Materials™ only to converge teaching of mechanics of materials to discussions about weather, magazine Forbes ratings and so on… or discussing scientific problems which are far beyond from our standard mechanics of materials curriculum.

My congratulations to all students on the occasion of a new academic year!
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