TABLE OF CONTENTS In this chapter we'll consider various aspects of data input into Mathcad documents and output of the calculation results. In the starting sections of this chapter, we'll provide a brief reference to numeric input and output, and we'll list data types that are applicable in the Mathcad environment ( see Section 15.1) when defining variables and functions.
However, the main focus will be on graphs, since they are the most powerful tools used to represent the results of calculations in Mathcad. Therefore, the majority of this chapter is dedicated to efficient usage of the graphs ( see Sections 15.2 15.4).
The mechanism of creating animation files ( see Section 15.5), a feature that makes the results of working with Mathcad especially efficient and illustrative, is based on the dynamic change of the graphs. Moreover, Mathcad provides a wide range of functional capabilities of data input and output to external text or graphic files ( see Section 15.6).
The simplest and the most widely used method of data input and output is implemented in Mathcad by assignment and output (either numeric or symbolic) directly within a document. Actually, a Mathcad document simultaneously represents a program code and the result returned by that program. Numeric input and output was covered in detail in Chapter 4, which, actually, is nearly entirely dedicated to this topic (details on data input are...
