Hi -
I am a college student who discovered Maxima recently and think it is
great. A lot of power, for not a lot of money. Not bad.
Still, I find myself needing to do some things that I would like to do
with Maxima, and I am wondering if they are possible. First of all, I
am taking an advanced electromagnetics class and we work with vector
operations a lot, particularly curl, divergence, gradient and
laplacian. I have not seen any description of these functions in my
searches. It doesn't seem like it would be too terribly hard to write,
but I don't know how to write functions in Maxima, and how I could have
them automatically load up when I start.
Secondly, I am taking a control systems class in which we use Bode
diagrams frequently. Generally we do all of our work in Matlab, but one
person likes to use MathCad and it occurred to me that Maxima might be
able to do some of this, if Bode plots can be done. Not a lot on that
subject either. So, do any of you more experienced Maxima users have
some suggestions for me on what I can do, where I can to, to satisfy
these needs? Thanks a ton.
-Ron Crummett