In this lab session we used Maple to solve some ordinary differential equations and we illustrated the building of a simple animation.
Maple's command to solve ordinary differential equations is dsolve. We translated the first two sections of chapter 9 into Maple, using the problems and examples from the textbook.
To see the making of a swinging planar pendulum:
The above worksheets were prepared before the class. Below is what I managed to demonstrate in the lab:
We will start the next lecture with an example of deriving differential equations with the methods of Newton and Hamilton.