Seminar on Mathematica 6

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Seminar on Mathematica 6

• Welcome to ITs seminar on Mathematica
• Sam Gordji, ccsam_at_olemiss.edu
• Jason Hale, jghale_at_olemiss.edu
• Weir 107

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General Information

• Questions will be answered during the seminar.
• What is Mathematica?
• Mathematica does mathematical operations.
• Its competitors are MathWorks, Maple, and others.
  
• University decided on getting Mathematica after
  looking into other similar packages.

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General Information

• Email contact
• Email your questions to
• mathadm_at_olemiss.edu
• To download Mathematica 6 Please visit
• http//www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php?pagen
  amemathematica.inc
• Please fill out the performance report and leave
  your email address so we may contact you for
  follow up questions.

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General Information

• This seminar covers Mathematica for Ole Miss
  given the limitations placed on the presenter of
  this seminar.
• All the work in Mathematica is performed in a
  Notebook.

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General Information (cont.)

• The content of the seminars may be viewed at
• http//www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/mathematica/fall_sem

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Introduction (cont.)

• Some of Mathematicas Webpages
• http//library.wolfram.com/infocenter/BySubject/Ma
  thematica/ApplicationPackages/
• http//www.wolfram.com/services/
• http//www.wolfram.com/siteinfo/
• The last one contains UM site Information and
  help users to find various information such as
  services available to UM users, etc.

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Introduction (cont.)

• Mathematicas main function is to perform
  Mathematical operations.
• This seminar is based on how Mathematica is being
  used at UM.

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Mathematicas Help browser

• Lets spend a few minutes and check the Startup
  Palette on Whats new in 6.

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A practical problem

• The following equation is the solution for the
  Richards equation and yields the amount of time
  needed for the saturated surface content to reach
  the residual moisture at the surface (Z0)
• 2.18((t/pi).5)Exp-t/4. .216
• Please note that all the parameters are
  substituted in the above equation.

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Y-axis is the moisture content and the x-axis
rep. depth. Graphs shows how evaporation takes
place