If you can not obtain an answer at all you should most definitely ask for help in the recitations, or from me, right away. But do try hard first - you do not learn much, if anything, from watching someone else solve problems that you have not thought hard about. Maple Maple is a symbolic mathematics program. It is a delightful tool for experimenting with mathematics and it will solve many, if not all, of the problems we consider in this course. I encourage you to learn it, and to play with it.
Maple is available in many campus computer labs.
You need an ORST account to make use of the MLC lab. Please note Maple is not required for this course. The assignments are problems which will be used as models for test problems. This arrangement will allow me to give you more interesting and more applications oriented problems on the tests. Of course the tests may have some routine drill problems as well.