Maple O.D.E. lab book

the long version

This book and disk package is a supplement to any currently existing introductory text on Ordinary Differential Equations and uses Maple V as a computational tool to further understanding and importance. Maple is a powerful symbolic computer software package with which the student can learn to perform many tasks. This platform allows one to do many mundane tasks quickly and efficiently enabling new ways of illustrating and thinking about difficult concepts which will allow for new depths of understanding. Numerical and graphical information and methods are emphasized along with symbolic results throughout this manual in order to take advantage of the versatility of Maple and to increase the breadth of understanding of the student.