Maple/Using Maple in Calculus, PDEs, and ODEs

Symbolic Integration with Maple

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To make sure that the typed integral is right, before asking Maple to actually evaluate it, use the inert command Int:

>Int((cos(omega*t + phi))^2,t=0..2*Pi/omega);

$\underset{0}{\overset{2\pi /\omega }{\int }}{\cos (\omega t+\varphi )}^{2}dt$

To evaluate the integral use the command value.

>value(%);

$\frac{\pi }{\omega }$

Symbolic Differentiation with Maple

The inert differentiation operator is Diff:

>Diff(ln(x),x);

$\frac{d}{dx}\ln (x)$

>value(%);

$\frac{1}{x}$

Solving partial fraction decompositions with Maple

A borrowed trick from Matlab (using the fundamental theorem of calculus):

To integrate it, it will probably have to do a partial fraction expansion, so we let it do the expansion when it integrates, then differentiate to get our rational expression converted/decomposed into partial fractions:

>diff(int((5*x+1) / (x^2-1),x),x);

$\frac{3}{x-1}+\frac{2}{1+x}$

Maple has partial fraction expansion built in, though, if you want to do it directly. The command is

>convert( (5*x+1) / (x^2-1), parfrac, x);

$\frac{3}{x-1}+\frac{2}{1+x}$

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