The physics is kinematics, but it can lead to a number of equations. The equations are easy, but visuallization is difficult. Let the students discover the simplicity of the properties of waves. The equations are straight forward but the results are impossible to handle. Get the students to recognize the fact that the computer does not care.
Maple is easy to include comments and animations.
Students don't have to memorize all the Hermite polynomials - just how to work with them. Lab Much of the lab is examining the validity of numbers. With this complete package they don't have to learn multiple programs. Exams Exams do not need to be a list of problems that happen to end with the value .