Maple is a powerful symbolic computation tool. It is one of several commercial software products which can be used for the numerical study of differential equations, and has the advantage of being installed in most computer labs at UTM and made readily available to you. During the year we will have several computing labs to develop the basic skills in modelling and solving ODEs using Maple.

There is a wealth of information on Maple on the World Wide Web. An excellent starting point is http://www.mapleapps.com. It contains links to several on-line Maple tutorials. An extensive tutorial is found here.