Support for Researchers, Scientists and Engineers

Scientific constants
Never again must you consult reference books or the Web to perform scientific computations. Maple 8 includes Avogadro’s number, the proton magnetic shielding correction, and over 13 000 other scientific constants from physics and chemistry.

If you need to look up the ionization energy of iodine, don’t get up, because Maple 8 already knows the Periodic Table. With a single Maple command, you can access the basic chemical properties of any element or isotope.

If the Maple 8 database of constants doesn’t suffice for your application, you can easily extend or change it.

Numeric PDEs
Heat equation, wave equation, Poisson equation – they all yield to the new Maple 8 numeric PDE-solver. Maple 8 can now solve linear systems of PDEs with boundary conditions.

Java™ code generation and external calling
Maple 8 has added Java™ to its repertoire of connectivity with other programming languages. You can exploit the flexibility of Java classes by automatically translating your Maple results into Java code. You can also call static Java methods externally from Maple 8 applications.

Vector calculus
Maple 8 provides a new package of functions for vector calculus. —-operations, surface integrals, differential geometric properties, and many other computations can be performed using any basis and in any coordinate system that you specify. The package is fully compatible with the Maple LinearAlgebra package.

Calculus of variations
You can now compute geodesics and other optimal functionals with ease using the new Maple 8 VariationalCalculus package.

Differential equations
The Waterloo Maple research team has enriched the Maple ODE solvers with more powerful algorithms in Maple 8. Maple remains the most extensive computational environment in the world for working with differential equations.