The Railway Challenge is a competition designed by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), aimed at engaging young engineers with the rail industry.  The challenge, now in its seventh successive year, brings together teams of university students, as well as apprentices and graduates working in industry across the world to test their business knowledge, design ability and technical skills in a live test environment.

The Railway Challenge at Sheffield (RCAS) is an extracurricular student-led activity within the Mechanical Engineering department at the university of Sheffield, that designs, codes and manufactures a 10 1/4 inch gauge miniature locomotive to compete in the IMechE’s  Railway Challenge.  The locomotive is assessed in accordance with a set of strict rules and a detailed technical specification, such as traction, ride comfort, and a business case. The locomotives are tested live at a competition, which takes place in June at the Stapleford Miniature Railway in Leicestershire, where several categories of winners and an overall Railway Challenge champion is crowned.

The team consists of around twenty members, and students studying Mechanical Engineering and even cross discipline can get involved as soon as they come to the University, getting into to the design of components within the suspension or braking systems for example, before proceeding to manufacture and test; allowing the students to experience all the stages of an engineering product as well as skills gained by working in the team such as effective communication, time management and financial planning.

Last year the team was granted a sponsorship from Maplesoft, and as a result, huge improvements were made within the team. Overall the team jumped from finishing in 7^th place to in the summer winning the maintainability challenge and finishing in 4^th place overall – mostly down to the electronics working for the first year ever!

Using Maplesoft’s donation the team switched form a central CRIO control system to a distributed network using I2C protocols and Arduino hardware. This did away with some of the electrical teething problems the team has suffered in previous years. It also introduced our Mechanical Engineers to coding that they would otherwise not do in their course.

This year Maplesoft have again sponsored RCAS. The team is hoping to use the licenses to perform their structures calculations in an easy way to keep track of them for use in the design report. They are also hoping to use MapleSim for dynamics modelling, to assist with suspension design, and designing any electronics or control elements, such as filter design and motor control.

abs(-((-(1/20)*sqrt(5)-1/20)*cos((1/5)*Pi)-(1/20)*sqrt(2)*sqrt(5-sqrt(5))*sin((1/5)*Pi))*24^(1/5)*5^(3/5)-I*((1/20)*sqrt(2)*sqrt(5-sqrt(5))*cos((1/5)*Pi)+(-(1/20)*sqrt(5)-1/20)*sin((1/5)*Pi))*24^(1/5)*5^(3/5))

I am trying to compute the modulus the above complex number. However, the "abs" command does not affect the complex expression. Any reason for this?

Many thanks!

restart;
globale values, small water droplet in gravity field  , through air with velocity V=[vx,vy]  ,v=abs(V)  total dragforce kan be written FDD=abs(FD)

mu := 0.18e-4; rho := 1, 2; d := .2; Co := .4;
#abs(FD) divided into  FDx og FDy
%;

FDx := (3*Pi*mu*d+(1/8)*Pi*Co*rho*d^2*abs(v))*vx;




FDy := (3*Pi*mu*d+(1/8)*Pi*Co*rho*d^2*abs(v))*vy;

# Define v=[vx,vy] to abs(v) wich gives the length of v (scalar value)


v := proc (vx, vy) options operator, arrow; (vx^2+vy^2)^.5 end proc;

#Make FDx og FDy to  abs(FD) 

FD := sqrt(FDx^2+FDy^2);

#Define total dragforce

FDD := (1/8)*Cd*abs(v)*Pi*d^2*abs(v^2);

#Total dragforce can be writte like FDD=abs(FD), solve for Cd(v)

FD1 := solve(FD = FDD, Cd);

#Make a function which returns Cd(v) 

Cd := proc (v) options operator, arrow; 63.66197724*FD1/abs(v)^3 end proc;

HOWTO GET MY Cd(v) to return values ?????

Ive got some problem understand the use of = and := , and how to get my Cd function to mangage the v expression. A copy (in norwegian) from my assignment to see the formulas is attached. Im thankfull for any help.

inl1d.pdf

Dear Sirs, 

Can someone explain to why if I load Real Domain, that the derivate of a function at certain value comes out like in screendump? 

Thanks in advance :)  

https://imgur.com/a/sHJEj

Fred

I have this set of four equations and five constants, how I will shoot for x5 to find the unique solution

I assumme x5= pi/2 as initial guess but no solution

any body can help?

I am writing a textbook in biomedical engineering and using Maple 14 for generating figures.  In many of the graphs, my axis labels have subscripts or superscripts.  For example in a 2D plot statement I type   labels=[x,f[0](x)] which gives a subscript 0.   However, both x and f₀(x) appear in italics.  How can I have them appear as normal...i.e. without italics? The labelfont command does not seem to have an instruction to remove the italics.  Can you assist me?

We’re so excited to bring you guys #MapleOfficeHours! This is a program we’ve designed for students (but open to everyone) to connect via social media for help with Maple. Maple can play a really important part in your courses and can sometimes be intimidating for new users. We get it, there’s a lot of ground to cover. With #MapleOfficeHours, we will use social media as a live Q&A platform to help you figure out how to use Maple for your homework, assignments and more. Having trouble with a command or function? #MapleOfficeHours. Need help finding a specific resource or app? #MapleOfficeHours. You get the idea…

Just like the office hours your professors hold, #MapleOfficeHours is going to be available on a regular basis for support. More events will be scheduled soon, but look out for Twitter chats, mini-webinars, Facebook live events and more. Once we get going, we’d love to hear your feedback on what other types of events we can offer and what topics you’d like to see covered.

Our first #MapleOfficeHours event will be a live Twitter chat. On October 16^th at 2PM EDT, I will be joined with Maple Product Manager, @DanielSkoog and Tech Support Team Lead, Dr. Matt Calder to answer as many questions about Maple that we can possibly fit into an hour’s time.

To join the Twitter chat, use the hashtag #MapleOfficeHours when posting your questions and/or mention us with @maplesoft.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at our first #MapleOfficeHours event on October 16^th, 2PM EDT!

I would like to solve {x^2+y^2+z^2 = 3, x+y+z = 3} over the reals. Clearly x=1,y=1,z=1 is a solution.

Maple seems to have a hard time with this. I have tried using with(RealDomain) and various commands.

The last solution  is getting closer to the real number answer if i substitute z = 1, but then i get the strange answer { 1=1, x=1,y=1}

I tried using wolfram and it showed me the correct answer.

Rest assured, I am a strong maple fan. I sometimes use wolfram for quick and dirty solutions.

Also is there a way to turn off "with(RealDomain)", switch back to the default domain, without using 'restart'. 

Is there any way i can define a value to a variable together with an angle? 

I am looking to do something like this:

the example is from Mathcad, but i was hoping there was some way to do it in Maple also?

I want to write a code for solving following PDE with Cauchy data.
Equation:  (y-u(x,y))*(diff(u(x,y), x))+(u(x,y)-x)*(diff(u(x, y), y)) =x-y
Cauchy Data: u(x,y)=0 on xy=1.

THE CODE:
restart;
PDE := (y-u(x,y))*(diff(u(x,y), x))+(u(x,y)-x)*(diff(u(x, y), y)) =x-y;ic:=u(x, 1/x)=0;
ans := pdsolve({PDE,ic});
pdetest(ans, PDE);

Maple doesn' t give a solution.Why?

"Error, (in PDEtools:-Library:-NormalizeBoundaryConditions) unexpected occurrence of the variables {x} in the 2nd operand of u(x, 1/x) in the given initial conditions"

I

How to get the number of parameters of an operator/procedure? Like this.

How do I move a circle around a sphere?

See attached:  WA61_circle_sphere_post.mw

Circle shares surface area of sphere, how can circle be moved independently around sphere?

I would like to retain the patchwork of the sphere to resemble latitude/longitude lines.

Thanks in advance

Les

Using the syntax in Maple we develop the energy with conservation equations here we are applying the commands int, factor, solve among others. We also integrate vector functions through the scalar product and finally we calculate conservative fields applying the rotational to a field of force. Exclusive for engineering students. In spanish.

Work_of_a_Force.mw

Lenin Araujo castillo

Ambassafor of Maple

I am using the LinearAlgebra package to do dynamics between a rotating Cartesian coordinate system and a fixed Cartesian coordinate system. The VectorCalculus package is not what I need. 

Since I can't seem to get my test worksheet to paste into this post, I will manually enter an "approximation" to it. I assume that the notation [x, y, z] represents a column vector. I also assume that x represents the cross product operator from the operator pallete. 

I just want to get any one of the three ways of doing a vector cross product (see below) to simply display in math notation as R x V. What I get from the three methods below for an unevaluated cross product is "ugly".

Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.

> restart

> with(LinearAlgebra):

> R := Vector(3, [x, y, z])

                                                 R := [x, y, z]

> V := Vector(3, [u, v, w])

                                                 V := [u, v, w]

>R x V

                                                [-vz + wy, uz - wx, -uy + vx]

>'R x V'

                                               Typesetting:-delayCrossProduct(R,V)

>CrossProduct(R, V)

                                               [-vz + wy, uz - wx, -uy + vx]

>'CrossProduct(R,V)'

                                               LinearAlgebra:-CrossProduct(R,V)

> R &x V

                                               [-vz + wy, uz - wx, -uy + vx]

'R &x V'

                                               LinearAlgebra:-&x(R,V)

Can any one disprove maple answer in the attached document?
If not, what is the conclusion?
 

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s_is_complex.mw