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 Scientific
Notebook Version 5.5 is ideal for reports, homework, and exams. With
Scientific Notebook, creating attractive
documents that contain text, mathematics, and graphics is seamless and easy.
Version 5.5 includes RTF export, enabling you to share
your work with colleagues or friends who do not have
Scientific Notebook.
Quick, Clean, and Easy
The software is simple to use, yet powerful enough to
facilitate teaching, communicating, learning, and exploring mathematics in
the classroom. It is based on an easy-to-use word processor that completely
integrates writing mathematics in natural notation.
Entering text and mathematics in
Scientific Notebook is so straightforward there is practically no
learning curve. Formatting is fast, simple, and consistent, since it is done
with tags that define the document structure and appearance.
The software comes with reference manuals and an
extensive online help system for creating documents and doing mathematics.
If you need additional help, MacKichan Software provides reliable, prompt,
free technical support.
The Power of Computer Algebra
 Scientific
Notebook is supplied with the built-in computer algebra engine
MuPAD® 3.1. You can solve equations right in
your documents with our easy-to-use interface.
You don't have to master complex syntax to be able to
evaluate, simplify, solve, or plot mathematical expressions. Full computer
algebra capabilities are available. You can compute symbolically or
numerically, integrate, differentiate, and solve algebraic and differential
equations. With menu commands, you can compute with over 150 units of
physical measure. You can import data from graphing calculators.
In addition, you can use the Exam Builder provided with
Scientific Notebook to construct exams
algorithmically and to generate, grade, and record quizzes on a web server.
Animate, Rotate, Zoom, and Fly
With Scientific Notebook
Version 5.5, you can create 2-D and 3-D plots in many styles and coordinate
systems, and enhance the plots with background colour, grid lines, and plot
labels in specified locations and orientations. And with
MuPAD's VCAM you can animate these kinds of
plots: 2D plots in polar coordinates, 2D and 3D plots in rectangular
coordinates, 2D and 3D implicit plots, 2D and 3D vector fields, 3D tube
plots, 3D plots in cylindrical coordinates, and 3D plots in spherical
coordinates and vector fields.
View all your plots in the VCAM window with playback
toolbar controls. Use your mouse to start, stop, re-run, and loop
animations. Define an animation variable t for your plot and specify
the animation start and end times and the rate of frames per second. With
OpenGL 3D graphics, you can rotate, move, zoom in and out, and fly through
3D plots.
Work with "Live" Mathematics Over the World Wide Web
If you have Internet access, you can open the file at any
URL address from inside the software. With Scientific
Notebook, you can send mathematical documents containing text,
equations, and plots over the Internet.
Scientific Viewer,
our free web browser, makes the exchange of technical documents a breeze.
The software supports hypertext links, so you can
facilitate navigation for your readers through a series of related
documents. Readers can view and print documents using
Scientific Viewer.
With the external lookup feature, you can access or run external programs,
such as a search engine or other application, directly from your
Scientific Notebook document.
Computer Algebra Systems
A computer algebra system, or CAS, is a mathematics
engine that performs the symbolic computations fundamental to algebra,
trigonometry, and calculus. Recent versions of
Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook
(after Version 4.1 Build 2347) include the kernel to the computer
algebra system
MuPAD®. Earlier versions included a Maple
5.1 kernel
With MuPAD, you can
evaluate, factor, combine, expand, and simplify terms and expressions that
contain integers, fractions, and real and complex numbers, as required in
simple arithmetic and algebra.
You can also evaluate integrals and derivatives, perform matrix and vector
operations, find standard deviations, and perform many other more complex
computations involved in calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and
statistics. Additionally, you can create
2D and 3D plots of polynomials, trigonometric
functions, and exponentials, and you can create animated
2D and 3D plots and explore them with the MuPAD VCAM window.
Features and Capabilities of MuPAD
MuPAD Version. This
version of Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Notebook includes the
MuPAD 3.1 kernel. We have created an interface
to the kernel to make MuPAD easy to use with
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Notebook. In addition, the system
accepts input and creates output using natural mathematical notation, the
basis for our scientific word processors. Performing computations in
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Notebook is easy.
Computational Functions.
Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook
provide a wide range of the graphic, numeric, and symbolic
computational functions available with MuPAD.
The programs provide ample functionality for both simple and sophisticated
mathematical computations involving calculus, PDE,
ODE, matrix manipulations, statistics, linear algebra, and 2D and 3D
plots. Also, you can access additional functions available to
MuPAD—even if they don't appear as items on
the Compute menu—with the Define MuPAD Name menu item.
Animated Plots. With MuPAD,
you can create a variety of animated plots: animated
2D plots in polar coordinates, animated 2D and 3D plots in rectangular
coordinates, animated 2D and 3D implicit plots, and animated 3D tube plots
in cylindrical and spherical coordinates and vector fields. You can rotate,
move, zoom in and out, and fly through 3D plots.
User-defined Functions. With
MuPAD, you can create user-defined functions
(.mu files) with an ASCII editor, even if you don't have access to a full
MuPAD installation. The files are easy to
manipulate and are powerful tools for users interested in programming.
Working in a Scientific WorkPlace or
Scientific Notebook document, you call the
function with the Define MuPAD Name command.
Available Functions. While
Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook
provide many functions available with MuPAD,
not all capabilities are included. Programming packages, certain plot types
and options (especially animated plots), and manipulation of the position of
highlights and shadows in 3D plots aren't available.
Scientific Notebook doesn't have 3D implicit plotting with either
CAS. Additionally, some limitations exist regarding the placement of text on
plots and the use of different types of plots on the same graph. Iteration
and condition commands (such as if, elif, else, fi, for, while, do, and od)
aren't available.
To learn more about MuPAD,
visit the SciFace
website.
Product box contents
- 1 CD
- 1 copy of Getting Started with Scientific
WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook (104 pages)
- 1 copy of Doing Mathematics with Scientific
WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook (536 pages)
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Examples
You can use the underlying MuPAD
engine to solve
the following kinds of problems in
Scientific
WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook.
Roll
the mouse over the mathematics to see the solution to each problem.
Arithmetic
Evaluate
Factor
Evaluate
Evaluate
Evaluate Numerically
Simplify
Factor
Algebra
Expand
Factor
Solve
, Solution is:
Calculus
Evaluate
Evaluate
Evaluate
Evaluate
Evaluate the Determinant of
, determinant:
Statistics
Determine the Mean of
, Mean(s):
Determine the Standard Deviation of
, Standard
deviation(s):
Plots and Animated Plots
You can create plots like these with
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Notebook:
2D Plots
• 2D Rectangular Plots
Plot 2D + Rectangular:
• Piecewise-Defined Functions
Plot 2D + Rectangular
• Bar Charts
Enter, select, and drag to a 2D Rectangular plot each of
the following:
• Grids
You can create a grid using point plots. Enter, select
with the mouse, and drag each of the following to the frame:
Animated 2D Plots
• Animated 2D Rectangular Plot
Plot 2D Animated + Rectangular:
Enter, select, and drag to the frame each of the
following:
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3D Plots
• 3D Rectangular Plots
Plot 3D + Rectangular:
• 3D Implicit Plots
Plot 3D + Implicit:
Animated 3D Plots
• Animated 3D Rectangular Plot
Plot 3D Animated + Rectangular
System requirements
- Microsoft Windows® 98, Me, 2000, XP, and up, or NT 4.0
or
Apple Macintosh® running an emulator program such as Virtual PC™
- 64 MB of RAM
- 35 to 200 MB hard disk space, depending on the type of hard drive
and the installation options selected
- CD-ROM drive
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