Lab 1

1. Open Maple by clicking on the Maple 13 icon in the row of icons on the bottom of your screen. (You should have the computer booted to Macintosh OSX)
2. After opening Maple, you will have an "Untitled" window where you can do computations. Instead of doing that, though, please click on the Help icon in the icon bar at the top of the Maple window. Then, in the Help window that opens, click on "Getting Started" -> "Tutorials" -> "1-Talking to Maple". Work through a few of the examples here to become familiar with basic Maple input and output.
   
3. Next, click on the Help icon again and go to "Getting Started" -> "Tutorials" -> "4-Plotting".  Work through the sections:
   • Introduction
     
   • 2-D and 3-D Plots
     
   • Using the Plot Builder Assistant
     
4. Note that you can move 3-dimensional graphs around in space. This allows you to see the graphs from many angles and significantly helps in visualization.
5. Having done this, try graphing some of the functions we looked at or that were discussed in the book. In particular, you might try graphing the following functions:
   • z = x^2 + y^2
   • z = x * y
   • z = exp(-(x^2 + y^2)) * sin(x+y)