Mathematica Resources

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Recent changes to this page:

26-Oct-2001 --- additional notebooks
26-Oct-2001 --- Original version, based on REU tutorial page.

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General Info
Mathematica Tutorials -- Links to tutorials for Mathematica,
Mathematica example notebooks
Local (OSU) Mathematica tutorial sessions
- Additional handouts/notebooks
- Exercises

General Information about Mathematica

Recommended Books

The Mathematica Book is available online as part of the Help Browser in Mathematica.
A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica by Patrick Tam provides a detailed tutorial with many examples from physics. There are updates for version 3 and version 4.

Find Mathematica books at Amazon.com

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Mathematica Resources

Wolfram Research, publishers of Mathematica
- Mathematica FAQs from Wolfram Research
- Mathsource --- an electronic resource that contains the largest collection of Mathematica packages, notebooks, examples, and programs available.
  - Tutorials from Mathsource.
  - Some advanced physics applications
Morrison's Mathematica Resources
Ted Ersek's Mathematica Tricks
Mathematica tutorials:
List of Mathematica Related Sites

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Mathematica Example Notebooks

If you use Internet Explorer on one of the Windows machines in 1011 or 2064, selecting a Mathematica notebook link will automatically open Mathematica with that notebook.

Date Revised	Notebook	Comments
06/27/00	Debugging	Mathematica notebook with some suggestions for debugging Mathematica expressions
06/27/00	Vector Manipulations	Mathematica notebook with examples of vector stuff (dot product, cross product, etc.)
06/26/00	Taylor Series	Mathematica notebook with examples of Taylor series expansions
06/28/00	Numerical Diff. Eq.s	Mathematica notebook with examples of numerical differential equation solving.
06/28/00	Functions with Options	Mathematica notebook showing how to write functions with two types of optional arguments (with defaults).
06/26/00	Square Wave	Mathematica notebook showing a square wave being built from sine waves.
06/26/00	Defining n!	Mathematica notebook with many ways to define n!.
06/26/00	Least-Squares Fits	Mathematica notebook with examples of least-square fitting.
06/26/00	Rolling Dice	Mathematica notebook with simulation of rolling dice.
06/26/00	Euler's Equations	Mathematica notebook with the book flipping problem analyzed.
06/26/00	Colliding Pulses	Mathematica notebook with animations of colliding pulses.
06/26/00	Differential Equations	Mathematica notebook with examples of differential equation solving.
06/26/01	Mir Space Station	Great notebook on rotational kinematics, done by an astronaut.
06/26/01	Solving the Schroedinger equation	From the Phys263 class, a numerical integration of the Schroedinger equation.
06/26/01	Plumb bob
06/26/01	Pedagogical machine	Animation of the famous chapter 2 problem from Kleppner and Kolenkow.

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OSU/REU Tutorial Sessions

Additional Handouts/Notebooks

Session	Comments
Session 2	Mathematica notebook with session 2 examples.
Session 3	Mathematica notebook with session 3 examples.
Session 4	Mathematica notebook with session 4 examples.
Session 5	Mathematica notebook with session 5 examples.
Session 6	Mathematica notebook with session 6 examples.

Mathematica Tutorial Exercises

Session	Comments
Session 1	Mathematica exercises in pdf format.
Session 2	Mathematica exercises in pdf format.
Session 3	Mathematica exercises in pdf format.
Session 4	Mathematica exercises in pdf format.
Session 5	Mathematica exercises in pdf format.

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