The default dot density for exported GIF files is 96 dpi - necessary for screen display but not optimal for printing. Is there anywhere, internal or external to Maple 11, to monkey with the resolution to suit me? (Obviously, I can export GIF and then "alter" resolution in a third party package, but, hopefully obviously as well, this doesn't help as it is very lossy. I need to save the vector content directly to, say, a 200 dpi GIF image).

Also, wmf and eps format exportations are not good options for me either, as these two file export formats fail to reproduce the graph I see on my Maple document: layering gets scrambled, transparency settings are ignored or altered, etc.

I am looking for a maple worksheet with a maplet using Newton's law of cooling to show my students in their Pre-Cal class. I didn't have any problem creating the maplet but can't seem to get the coding to work! If anybody has one, I would certainly appreciate it greatly.
Thanks

I am currently attending high school, grade 11, and have purchased Maplesoft to asisst me with my math home work. I'm well aware that the aplications of Maplesoft far exceed my needs currently, but I hope to continue its use further through to unversity.
My issue is to figure out how to change the markings / ticks along the x axis of a graph so that I can plot a function i.e. sin(x) and know where π/2 ,π, 3π/2, and 2π are located.
This will help as I learn the process of the transformations of a function.

Any ideas?

Thanks.David

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!
Details

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mechofmat.com

With this Generation of MapleStudio you can also plot complex functions in 2D and also 3D. For doing this, MapleStudio uses the conformal and the conformal3d comands of Maple 10. The following example will show you, how it works.

With mapleSTUDIO you can plot functions in 2D and 3D. Animating your plots won't be a problem any time. This is the easiest way to plot your functions.
You can use it here online on mapleNET or you can download it and run the worksheet on your Computer. For adding new components to this worksheet I will only change the file on mapleprimes, but the name and the URL will be the same. So you should bookmark the mapleNET-URL for using the newest version of mapleSTUDIO. You can also add my Blog to your Feed-Reader, so you will know, when a new version is available.

The following interactive worksheet gives you the possibility to plot functions in 2D and 3D. There is also an interactive version available on the MapleNET - Server. You find it here. You can also download the worksheet here and run it in your Maple.
I will try to publish further versions with more possibilities to plot in the next weeks.

Ten days playing with Maple has proven that skills in one system don't necessarily translate to another. I have encountered a number of frustrations which are not so much a problem with Maple as my inability to match the subtleties of the new system. Some of the issues I have encountered:

• periodic locking up of the interface in document mode (this may be due to something I am doing wrong)
• getting used to the maple syntax and command list (it is further than the syntax of Mathematica than I originally suspected yet similar enough to completely mess me up)
• occasional odd state like behavior (which is, again, probably due to my ignorance than a problem with Maple)

These are the notes of a new Maple user attempting to come up to speed in, what is for me, a new algebraic manipulation tool. I am looking at the tool not so much as an engine for solving problems as much as I am interested in using it as a tool for teaching advanced physics concepts to students in the secondary school arena. Right now I only seek to use it as an aid to building better presentations for the students as well as supplying a dynamic environment for solving problems for students in my class.