Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0 [electronic resource] : A Guide for New and Current Users
Maxfield, Brent.
Burlington : Elsevier Science,
2013.
 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 
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Front Cover; Companion Website; Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0: A Guide for New and Current Users; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Book Overview; Additional Resources; Teminology; Acknowledgements; Part I - Building Your PTC Mathcad Toolbox; Chapter 1 - An Introduction to PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0; Before You Begin; Creating Simple Math Expressions; Grouping; Editing Expressions; PTC Mathcad Workspace; Summary of Equal Signs; Regions; Functions; Units; Arrays and Subscripts; Plotting - X-Y Plots; Programming, Symbolic Calculations, Solving and Calculus; Getting Started Tab; Summary; Practice
Chapter 2 - PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0 for Current Mathcad 15 UsersDifferences to Become Accustomed to; Exciting New Features in PTC Mathcad Prime; Features from Mathcad 15 that Are Not in Mathcad Prime 3.0; Summary; Chapter 3 - Variables and Regions; Variables; Types of Variables; Rules for Naming Variables; String Variables; Why Use Variables; Regions; Text Regions; Areas; Additional Information About Math Regions; Find and Replace; Inserting and Deleting Lines; Page View and Page Breaks; Summary; Practice; Chapter 4 - Simple Functions; Built-in Functions; Labels; User-defined Functions
Examples of User-defined FunctionsPassing a Function to a Function; Warnings; Engineering Examples; Summary; Practice; Chapter 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; Unit Scaling Functions; Dimensionless Units; Using the Unit Placeholder for Scaling; Summary; Practice
Part II - Hand Tools for Your PTC Mathcad ToolboxChapter 6 - Arrays, Vectors, and Matrices; Review of Chapter 1; Tables; Range Variables; Displaying Arrays; Using Units with Arrays; Calculating with Arrays; Array Functions; PTC Mathcad Calculation Summary; Engineering Examples; Summary; Practice; Chapter 7 - Selected PTC Mathcad Functions; Review of Built-in Functions; Selected Functions; Miscellaneous Categories of Functions; Summary; Practice; Chapter 8 - Plotting; Plots Tab; Creating a Simple XY Plot; Creating a Simple Polar Plot; XY Plot Range and Tick Marks; Number of Points Plotted
Using Range Variables to Set Plot DomainPolar Plot Range and Tick Marks; Graphing with Units; Formatting Plots; Graphing Multiple Functions; Plotting Data Points; Parametric Plotting; Trace and Zoom; Plotting over a Log Scale; 3D Plots and Contour Plots; Engineering Examples; Summary; Practice; Chapter 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
 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 
Machinery, Dynamics of -- Mathematical models.
MATLAB.
Numerical analysis -- Computer programs.