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Scientific Notebook gives the symbolic computation of Scientific WorkPlace with direct printing (no LaTeX typesetting).
Scientific Notebook is ideal for reports, homework, and exams. With Scientific Notebook, creating attractive documents that contain text, mathematics, and graphics is seamless and easy. It includes RTF export, enabling you to share your work with colleagues or friends who do not have Scientific Notebook. |
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Quick, Clean, and Easy
The software is simple to use, yet powerful enough to facilitate teaching, communicating, learning, and exploring mathematics in the classroom. It is based on an easy-to-use word processor that completely integrates writing mathematics in natural notation.
Entering text and mathematics in Scientific Notebook is so straightforward there is practically no learning curve. Formatting is fast, simple, and consistent, since it is done with tags that define the document structure and appearance.
The Power of Computer Algebra
Scientific Notebook is supplied with the built-in computer algebra engine MuPAD. You can solve equations right in your documents with our easy-to-use interface.
You don't have to master complex syntax to be able to evaluate, simplify, solve, or plot mathematical expressions. Full computer algebra capabilities are available. You can compute symbolically or numerically, integrate, differentiate, and solve algebraic and differential equations. With menu commands, you can compute with over 150 units of physical measure. You can import data from graphing calculators.
In addition, you can use the Exam Builder provided with Scientific Notebook to construct exams algorithmically and to generate, grade, and record quizzes on a web server.
Animate, Rotate, Zoom, and Fly
With Scientific Notebook, you can create 2-D and 3-D plots in many styles and coordinate systems, and enhance the plots with background colour, grid lines, and plot labels in specified locations and orientations. And with MuPAD's VCAM you can animate these kinds of plots: 2D plots in polar coordinates, 2D and 3D plots in rectangular coordinates, 2D and 3D implicit plots, 2D and 3D vector fields, 3D tube plots, 3D plots in cylindrical coordinates, and 3D plots in spherical coordinates and vector fields.
View all your plots in the VCAM window with playback toolbar controls. Use your mouse to start, stop, re-run, and loop animations. Define an animation variable t for your plot and specify the animation start and end times and the rate of frames per second. With OpenGL 3D graphics, you can rotate, move, zoom in and out, and fly through 3D plots.
Work with "Live" Mathematics Over the World Wide Web
If you have Internet access, you can open the file at any URL address from inside the software. With Scientific Notebook, you can send mathematical documents containing text, equations, and plots over the Internet.
Features and Capabilities of MuPAD
- Computational Functions: Scientific Notebook provide a wide range of the graphic, numeric, and symbolic computational functions available with MuPAD. The programs provide ample functionality for both simple and sophisticated mathematical computations involving calculus, PDE, ODE, matrix manipulations, statistics, linear algebra, and 2D and 3D plots. Also, you can access additional functions available to MuPAD—even if they don't appear as items on the Compute menu—with the Define MuPAD Name menu item.
- Animated Plots: With MuPAD, you can create a variety of animated plots: animated 2D plots in polar coordinates, animated 2D and 3D plots in rectangular coordinates, animated 2D and 3D implicit plots, and animated 3D tube plots in cylindrical and spherical coordinates and vector fields. You can rotate, move, zoom in and out, and fly through 3D plots.
- User-defined Functions: With MuPAD, you can create user-defined functions (.mu files) with an ASCII editor, even if you don't have access to a full MuPAD installation. The files are easy to manipulate and are powerful tools for users interested in programming. Working in a Scientific Notebook document, you call the function with the Define MuPAD Name command.
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| 2D Plots |
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2D Plots
• 2D Rectangular Plots
Plot 2D + Rectangular: 
• Piecewise-Defined Functions
Plot 2D + Rectangular 
• Bar Charts
Enter, select, and drag to a 2D Rectangular plot each of the following:
• Grids
You can create a grid using point plots. Enter, select with the mouse, and drag each of the following to the frame:
 
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Animated 2D Plots
• Animated 2D Rectangular Plot
Plot 2D Animated + Rectangular: 
Enter, select, and drag to the frame each of the following:
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3D Plots
• 3D Rectangular Plots
Plot 3D + Rectangular: 
• 3D Implicit Plots
Plot 3D + Implicit: 
Animated 3D Plots
• Animated 3D Rectangular Plot
Plot 3D Animated + Rectangular
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