1. Getting Started with Mathematica Welcome to IT’s seminar on Mathematica Sam Gordji, ccsam@olemiss.educcsam@olemiss.edu Weir 107

2. 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

3. General Information Email contact –Email your questions to mathadm@olemiss.edu Any full time student or faculty may install Mathematica from: https://secure.olemiss.edu/mathemat/index_mat h.jsp https://secure.olemiss.edu/mathemat/index_mat h.jsp Please fill out the performance report and leave your email address so we may contact you for follow up questions

4. General Information This seminar is for beginners and covers how to access information from UM Web as well as from Mathematica’s Website MathWorld is a site supported by Mathematica and contains solutions to many mathematical problems All the work in Mathematica is performed in a Notebook

5. Introduction Mathematica is a very powerful and user friendly package that most students from many disciplines may use Network Mathematica is a licensing program for sites that use multiple copies of Mathematica on a single network Mathematica is available to students, faculty and staff (UM Oxford) at no cost IT has several articles on Mathematica. These articles are designed to familiarize users with different parts of Mathematica

6. Introduction The webpages for these articles and the Demo Notebook called “Math_sem0.nb” may be downloaded http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php? pagename=mathcamp.inc Other IT articles on Mathematica may be downloaded from http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/mathematica /fall_sem/

7. Introduction Some of Mathematica’s Webpages: http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/BySubject/ Mathematica/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.

8. Introduction Mathematica’s main function is to perform Mathematical operations This seminar is based on how Mathematica is being used at the University of Mississippi

9. A practical problem The following equation is the solution for the Richard’s equation and yields the amount of time needed for the saturated surface content to reach the residual moisture at the surface (Z=0) 2.18*((t/pi)^.5)*Exp[-t/4.] =.216 Please note that all the parameters are substituted in the above equation.

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

11. Introduction Mathematica’s Startup Palette –Lets look at First Five Minutes with Mathematica –Using Help finding a function –Palette, basic_math.nb –Math_sem0.nb