TABLE OF CONTENTS You have just filled your Mathcad toolbox with many simple, yet useful tools. Part III will now add some very powerful Mathcad tools.
The purpose of Part II was to introduce features and functions that were not too confusing. It also gave simple examples. The features and functions introduced in Part III tend to be more complex and require more complex examples. We postponed the discussion of these topics until after you had a thorough understanding of Mathcad basics.
Part III discusses the powerful topics of symbolic calculations, root finding, solve blocks, and advanced Mathcad programming.
Symbolic calculations returns algebraic results rather than numeric results. Mathcad has a sophisticated symbolic processor that can solve very complex problems algebraically. The symbolic processor is different from the numeric processor.
The intent of this chapter is to wet your appetite for symbolic calculations. We will only cover a few of the topics in symbolic calculations. The topics we discuss are useful to help solve some basic engineering problems. We will not get into solving complex mathematical equations.
As always, the Mathcad Help and Tutorials provide excellent examples of topics not covered in this chapter.
Chapter 14 will:
Introduce symbolic calculations
Begin by showing how to solve a polynomial expression
Show how to solve polynomial expressions for algebraic and numeric solutions.
Demonstrate how to get quick static symbolic results by using...
