Essential PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 [recurso electrónico] : a guide for new and current users / by Brent Maxfield.

Learn how to use PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0, one of the world's leading tools for technical computing, in the context of engineering, science, and math applications. Quickly harness the power of Mathcad to solve simple and complex problems. Essential PTC Mathcad is perfect for college students and first-time users as well as for experienced Mathcad users who are moving to Prime 3.0. The book introduces the most powerful functions and features of the new Prime 3.0 software and teaches how to apply them to create comprehensive calculations for any quantitative subject. Examples from several fields demonstrate the power and utility of Mathcad's tools while also demonstrating how users can effectively incorporate other software, such as Excel spreadsheets. A free 12-month student trial edition of PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 is available by using the registration code included in the book. Provides more applied examples and problems than previous books on Mathcad Includes thorough discussions of Mathcad tools, such as differential equations, 3D plotting, reading from files and writing to filesEach copy of the book includes a code for students to download PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 Student Edition, giving the user a full year of use from time of installation.

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 An Introduction to PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 -- Before You Begin -- PTC Mathcad Basics -- Creating Simple Math Expressions -- Grouping -- Editing Expressions -- Selecting Characters -- Deleting Characters -- Deleting and Replacing Operators -- Modifying Expressions -- PTC Mathcad Workspace -- PTC Mathcad Button -- Quick Access Toolbar -- Open Worksheets Bar -- Status Bar -- Ribbon Bar -- Math Tab -- Operators -- Symbols -- Constants -- Summary of Equal Signs -- Regions -- Math Regions -- Text Regions -- Plot Regions -- Functions -- Built-in Functions -- User-defined Functions -- Units -- Assigning Units to Numbers -- Evaluating and Displaying Units -- Arrays and Subscripts -- Creating Arrays -- ORIGIN -- Subscripts -- Range Variables -- Plotting -- X-Y Plots -- Plots Tab -- Setting Plotting Ranges -- Programming, Symbolic Calculations, Solving and Calculus -- Getting Started Tab -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 2 PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 for Current Mathcad 15 Users -- Differences to Become Accustomed to -- Tab Key -- Extra Spacebar -- Editing Expressions -- Creating Text Boxes -- Literal Subscripts -- Page Breaks -- Regions to the Right of the Right Margin Do Not Print -- Units -- Creating a Range Variable -- Single Quote Does Not Add Parentheses -- Highlighting Regions -- Exciting New Features in PTC Mathcad Prime -- Labels -- Ribbon Bar -- Open Worksheets Bar -- Status Bar -- Ability to "pin" a Worksheet on the Recently Used Worksheets List -- Remove Empty Space -- Mixed Units in Arrays -- Operators -- Features from Mathcad 15 that Are Not in Mathcad Prime 3.0 -- Summary -- ch. 3 Variables and Regions -- Variables -- Types of Variables -- Rules for Naming Variables -- Case and Font -- Characters That Can Be Used in Variable Names -- Literal Subscripts -- Special Text Mode -- String Variables -- Why Use Variables -- Regions -- Understanding the Difference Between "activate" and "select" -- Selecting and Moving Regions -- Separating Regions -- Text Regions -- Changing Font Characteristics -- Controlling the Width of a Text Box -- Paragraph Properties -- Areas -- Additional Information About Math Regions -- Math Regions in Text Regions -- Math Regions That Do Not Calculate -- Find and Replace -- Find -- Replace -- Inserting and Deleting Lines -- Page View and Page Breaks -- View -- Gridlines -- Page Breaks -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 4 Simple Functions -- Built-in Functions -- Labels -- User-defined Functions -- Assigning the "Function" Label to User-defined Functions -- Why Use User-defined Functions? -- Using Multiple Arguments -- Variables in User-defined Functions -- Examples of User-defined Functions -- Passing a Function to a Function -- Warnings -- Engineering Examples -- Engineering Example 4.1: Column Buckling -- Engineering Example 4.2: Torsional Shear Stress -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 5 Units! -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Changing the Default Unit System -- Using and Displaying Units -- Derived Units -- Custom Default Unit System -- Units of Force and Units of Mass -- Creating Custom Units -- Units in Equations -- Using Labels to Distinguish Between Variables and Units -- Units in User-defined Functions -- Units in Empirical Formulas -- SIUnitsOf(x) -- Unit Scaling Functions -- Fahrenheit and Celsius -- Change in Temperature -- Degrees Minutes Seconds (DMS) -- Hours Minutes Seconds (hhmmss) -- Feet Inch Fraction (FIF) -- Money -- Dimensionless Units -- Using the Unit Placeholder for Scaling -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 6 Arrays, Vectors, and Matrices -- Review of Chapter 1 -- Tables -- Range Variables -- Range Variables vs. Vectors -- Converting a Range Variable to a Vector -- Using Range Variables to Create Arrays -- Using Units in Range Variables -- Calculating Increments from the Beginning and Ending Values -- Displaying Arrays -- Displaying and Resizing a Large Matrix -- Show/Hide Indices -- Using Units with Arrays -- Calculating with Arrays -- Addition and Subtraction -- Multiplication -- Division -- Array Functions -- Creating Array Functions -- Size Functions -- Lookup Functions -- Extracting Functions and Operators -- Sorting Functions -- PTC Mathcad Calculation Summary -- Engineering Examples -- Engineering Example 6.1: Using Vectors in a User-defined Function -- Engineering Example 6.2: Using Vectors in Expressions -- Engineering Example 6.3: Using Matrices in Functions and Expressions -- Engineering Example 6.4: Comparison of Using Range Variables and Vectors -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 7 Selected PTC Mathcad Functions -- Review of Built-in Functions -- Selected Functions -- max and min Functions -- mean and median Functions -- Truncation and Rounding Functions -- Summation Operator -- if Function -- linterp Function -- Miscellaneous Categories of Functions -- Curve Fitting, Regression, and Data Analysis -- Error Function -- String Functions -- Picture Functions and Image Processing -- Complex Numbers, Polar Coordinates, and Mapping Functions -- Mapping Functions -- Polar Notation -- Angle Functions -- Reading from and Writing to Files -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 8 Plotting -- Plots Tab -- Creating a Simple XY Plot -- Creating a Simple Polar Plot -- XY Plot Range and Tick Marks -- Number of Points Plotted -- Showing Only Points -- Using Range Variables to Set Plot Domain -- Polar Plot Range and Tick Marks -- Graphing with Units -- Formatting Plots -- Axis Location -- Location of Axis Placeholders -- Markers -- Formatting Plot Values -- Logarithmic Scaling -- Trace Styles -- Labels -- Graphing Multiple Functions -- Scale Factors -- Plotting Data Points -- Range Variables -- Data Vectors -- Error Plots -- Parametric Plotting -- Trace and Zoom -- Plotting over a Log Scale -- Plotting a Family of Curves -- 3D Plots and Contour Plots -- 3D Plots -- Contour Plots -- Engineering Examples -- Engineering Example 8.1 -- Engineering Example 8.2 -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 9 Simple Logic Programming -- Introduction to the Programming Toolbar -- Creating a Simple Program -- Use of else if and also if Operators -- Local Assignment -- Return Operator -- Boolean Operators -- Adding Lines to a Program -- Using Conditional Programs to Make and Display Conclusions -- Engineering Examples -- Engineering Example 9.1 -- Engineering Example 9.2 -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 10 Introduction to Symbolic Calculations -- Getting Started with Symbolic Calculations -- Keywords and Modifiers -- Float -- Solve -- Explicit -- Assume -- Fully -- Using -- Solving a System of Equations -- Expand, Simplify, and Factor -- Coeffs and Collect -- Substitute -- Combine and Rewrite -- Series -- Explicit -- Using More than One Keyword -- Units with Symbolic Calculations -- Additional Topics to Study -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 11 Solving Engineering Equations -- Root Function -- Polyroots Function -- Solve Blocks -- lsolve Function -- Solve Blocks using Maximize and Minimize -- TOL, CTOL, and Minerr -- Using Units -- Engineering Examples -- Engineering Example 11.1: Object in Motion -- Engineering Example 11.2: Electrical Network -- Engineering Example 11.3: Pipe Network -- Engineering Example 11.4: Chemistry -- Engineering Example 11.5: Determining the Flow Properties of a Circular Pipe Flowing Partially Full -- Engineering Example 11.6: Box Volume -- Engineering Example 11.7: Maximize Profit -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 12 Advanced Programming -- Local Definition -- Looping -- For Loops -- While Loops -- Break and Continue Operators -- Return Operator -- Try-On Error Operator -- Engineering Example 12.1 -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 13 Calculus and Differential Equations -- Differentiation -- Integration -- Differential Equations -- Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) -- Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) -- Engineering Examples -- Engineering Example 13.1 -- Engineering Example 13.2 -- Practice -- ch. 14 Putting It All Together -- Introduction -- Guidelines for Naming Variables -- Naming Guideline 1 -- Naming Guideline 2 -- Naming Guideline 3 -- Naming Guideline 4 -- Naming Guideline 5 -- PTC Mathcad Toolbox -- Variables -- Editing -- User-defined Functions -- Units! -- PTC Mathcad Settings -- Customizing PTC Mathcad with Templates -- Hand Tools -- Power Tools -- Let's Start Building -- What is Ahead -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 15 PTC Mathcad Settings -- PTC Mathcad Options -- Enable Getting Started Tab -- Enable PTC Places -- Set the Path for Accessing Help at an Alternate Location -- Disable Quality Agent Reporting -- Show PTC Mathcad News and Information -- Specify an Alternate Folder for My Templates -- Specify an Alternate Folder for Shared Templates -- Use an Alternate Template When Creating New Worksheets -- Ribbon Bar Settings -- Math Tab -- Matrices/Tables Tab -- Plots Tab -- Math Formatting Tab -- Results Format -- Show Trailing Zeros -- Display Precision -- Complex Values -- Calculation Tab -- Controls -- Worksheet Settings -- Document Tab -- Page -- View -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 16 Customizing PTC Mathcad -- Styles -- Math Formatting and Label Styles -- Differentiating Between Variables with the Same Name -- Applying Labels to User-defined Functions -- Changing Label Styles -- Math Font Changes: Region Specific Verses Global Changes -- Text Formatting -- Headers and Footers -- Creating Headers and Footers -- Information to Include in Headers and Footers -- Examples -- Margins -- Quick Access Toolbar Customization -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 17 Templates -- Information Saved in a Template -- PTC Mathcad Templates -- Review of Chapters 5, 15, and 16 -- Creating Templates -- Where Are Templates Stored? -- Creating Your Customized Template -- EM Metric -- Document Tab -- Math Tab -- Math Formatting Tab -- Text Formatting Tab -- Calculation Tab -- EM US -- Alternate Default Template -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 18 Assembling Calculations from Standard Calculation Worksheets -- Copying Regions from Other PTC Mathcad Worksheets --

Note continued: Creating Standard Calculation Worksheets -- Protecting Information -- Potential Problems with Inserting Standard Calculation Worksheets and Recommended Solutions -- Guidelines -- How to Use Redefined Variables in Project Calculations -- Resetting Variables -- Using User-defined Functions in Standard Calculation Worksheets -- Using the Include Feature -- When to Separate Project Calculation Files -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 19 Microsoft Excel Component -- Introduction -- Excel Component Block -- Input Context -- Excel Component Table -- Output Context -- Simple Example -- Inputs and Outputs -- Inputs -- Outputs -- Hiding Inputs and Outputs -- Important Concepts -- Opening, Closing, and Saving Excel -- Input Values Have Precedence -- What Displays in the Component Table -- Dealing with Empty Cells -- Inputs and Outputs Do Not Track Excel Changes -- Existing Spreadsheets -- Using Units with Excel -- Input -- Printing the Excel Component -- Summary -- Practice -- ch. 20 Conclusion -- Advantages of PTC Mathcad -- Creating Project Calculations -- Additional Resources -- Conclusion.

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