The answer to your question very much depends on how that curve was generated.  Is it the graph of a known function? Is it a solution of a differential eqation?  Is the graph of a market data? Does it represent a random walk?  Or perhaps something else?

Apparently the point of nm's original observation has been lost on the responders to this thread. So let me expand on his note.

Maple has no qualms about silently saving a worksheet containing the following huge amount of data:

restart;
Matrix(10,10, (i,j)->(a+b)^(i+j)):
expand~(%);

but it unnecessarily queries the user when asked to save the tiny worksheet

restart;
Array(0..2, [1,2,3]);

Curiously, the issue goes away when when we change the array bounds to 1..3:

restart;
Array(1..3, [1,2,3]);

What is the Iterative Projection Theorem? I haven't heard of it, and from the lack of responses here, it appears that no one else has heard of it either. Perhaps it's known by some other name?

Suggestion: Explain to us what you mean by the Iterative Projection Theorem.

In fact, by forcing yourself to explain what that theorem says, you may find the solution yourself without help from anyone. But, if you still need help with this homework problem, show what you have done so far, and point out where you need help.

@erik10 Maple's string handling is not kind to non-ASCII characters. Fortunately, Maple offers an interface to Python which handles non-ASCII with ease. The do_Danish() proc defined below selects only characters a-z and the three extra Danish characters from the given string.

Download mw.mw

@Kitonum That's excellent. Thanks. I didn't know about phaseamp. That can be quite useful in other occasions as well.

@vv That's an interesting observation. I had not noticed that. But now that you have pointed out, I see that the polynomial is actually symmetric about t=1. After replacing t by t+1 it simplifies to a cubic in t^2:

9*t^6 - 87*t^4 + 51*t^2 - 5

@vv Yes, that's the correct solution. The answer may be slightly simplified by combining the sine and cosine terms. I don't know how to get Maple to do that. I calculated the simplified version by hand:

There is an interesting symmetry-breaking in this problem. Since the values of the two volumes are symmetric about α = π, one would think that the maximum will occur at α = π, but that's not so as we see in the solution presented. In fact, α = π corresponds to a local minimum!

@JAMET I made that animation based on what you had proposed, but come to think of it, it's likely that a practical motorcycle engine will be configured to distribute power symmetrically over one revolution, as in this modified version.

The power distribution is still not quite symmetric, but it can be made symmetric by adding two more pistons, making it a 4-cylinder engine.

piston-crank-animation-alt.mw

@nm In my earlier reply I wrote: "The format of the font specification is defined in ?plot,options under the "font" entry. ".  Did you look?

A font specification is expected to be a list of the form [A,B,C] where A is the font family (e.g., Helvetica), B is the fine style (e.g., Bold), and C is the font size (e.g., 18).  B or C may be omitted, but not A. Saying axisfont=[12,12] or axisfont=12 makes no sense.

@Kevin Dragnet As Carl noted, the use of dchange in this context is an overkill, but for whatever it's worth, here it is:

restart;
sys := { diff(x(t),t) = y(t), diff(y(t),t) = -x(t) };
Tr := {x(t) = r(t)*cos(theta(t)), y(t)=r(t)*sin(theta(t))};
PDEtools:-dchange(Tr, sys, {r(t), theta(t)});
solve(%, {diff(r(t),t), diff(theta(t),t)});

The line that defines Tr in the code above may be obtained alternatively through the method that Carl proposed, as in:

Tr := [x(t), y(t)] =~ changecoords([x(t),y(t)], [x(t),y(t)], polar, [r(t), theta(t)]);

but in my view that's also an overkill.

Simultaneous access to multiple help pages will be a welcome enhancement. But I would rather have the multiple pages displayed as tabbed panels within a single help window (as it's done in web browsers and maple worksheets) rather than multiple help windows cluttering my screen.

@mmcdara That's a clever idea!

@Pets71 For the record, I am running Maple 2021 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on a 10 year old laptop with 4GB of memory. I use it just about every day in my classes for teaching, without a single problem.

I agree with Thomas Richard that what you have described smells very much like a bad RAM in your laptop. That's a hardware problem and has nothing to do with Maple.

See https://linuxhint.com/run_memtest_ubuntu/ on how to test your RAM in Ubuntu.

Isn't it more natural to name your variables S[i,j] rather than Sij?  If you do the former, then you may do

local S;
seq(seq(assign(S[i,j]=Vector(datatype=float)),i=1..9),j=1..9);

It will be good if you showed some attempt toward solving this homework problem.  You don't want someone else to do your homework for you, do you?