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Maple Learn Art: More Ways to Learn and Draw!

by: Milo Simmons 85 Product: Maple Learn

September 28 2022

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Who else likes art? I love art; doodling in my notebook between projects and classes is a great way to pass the time and keep my creativity sharp. However, when I’m working in Maple Learn, I don’t need to get out my book; I can use the plot window as my canvas and get my drawing fix right then and there.

We’ve done a few blog posts on Maple Learn art, and we’re back at it again in even bigger and better ways. Maple Learn’s recent update added some useful features that can be incorporated into art, including the ability to resize the plot window and animate using automatically-changing variables.

Even with all the previous posts, you may be thinking, “What’s all this? How am I supposed to make art in a piece of math software?” Well, there is a lot of beauty to mathematics. Consider beautiful patterns and fractals, equations that produce surprisingly aesthetically interesting outputs, and the general use of mathematics to create technical art. In Maple Learn, you don’t have to get that advanced (heck, unless you want to). Art can be created by combining basic shapes and functions into any image you can imagine. All of the images below were created in Maple Learn!

There are many ways you can harness artistic power in Maple Learn. Here are the resources I recommend to get you started.

I’ve recently made some YouTube videos (see the first one below) that provide a tutorial for Maple Learn art. This series is less than 30 minutes in total, and covers - in three respective parts - the basics, some more advanced Learn techniques, and a full walkthrough of how I make my own art.
Check out the Maple Learn document gallery art collection for some inspiration, the how-to documents for additional help, and the rest of the gallery to see even more Maple Learn in action!

Once you’re having fun and making art, consider submitting your art to the Maple Conference 2022 Maple Learn Art Showcase. The due date for submission is October 14, 2022. The Conference itself is on November 2-3, and is a free virtual event filled with presentations, discussions, and more. Check it out!

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The main difference between Newtonian mechanics and the mechanics based on Einstein's principle of relativity is that in the latter the velocity of light, , is the same in all inertial reference systems. Therefore, when comparing the velocity of an object measured in two reference systems 1 and 2 that are moving relative to each other, the Newtonian rule of addition of velocities, , where is the velocity of one system with respect to the other one, is not valid; if it were, the speed and of light in the systems 1 and 2 would not be the same. This introduces surprising conceptual consequences, and algebraic complications in the formulas relating the values of measurements, in the systems 1 and 2, of time, space and everything else that is related to that.

This post is thus about Einstein's principle of relativity and the consequences of the velocity of light being the same in all inertial reference systems. Although the topic is often considered advanced, the concepts, as shocking as they are, are easy to understand, and the algebra is still tractable in simple terms. The presentation, following Landau & Lifshitz [1], Chapter 1, is at a basic level, with no prerequisite expertise required, and illustrates well how to handle the basic algebraic aspects of special relativity using computer algebra.

Finally, it seems to me not useful to just present the algebra when the concepts behind Einstein's theory are straightforward and surprising. For that reason, the short sections 1 and 2 are all about these concepts, and the algebra only starts in section 3, with the Lorentz transformations (which was recently the topic of a Mapleprimes post at a more advanced level ). To reproduce the computations shown in this worksheet, please install the Maplesoft Physics Updates v.1314 or any subsequent version.