@mmcdara This really is a whole lot. Thanks for breaking it down.

@Carl Love 

I have used Matlab to obtain the eigenvalues of the matrices when all the variables are defined, and it did so in a fraction of the time it took Maple. I just need it to obtain those same values but with one of the variables left undefined so I can differentiate the results with respect to that variable@Carl Love 

@Kitonum thanks so much