CREATING A MATHEMATICA DEMONSTRATION FROM SCRATCH

Software Requirements To Create

Mathematica Version 8 To View

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Manipulate Manipulate[expression , {u,umin,umax,du}]

Add as many parameters as you want {u,umin,umax},{v,vmin,vmax},…

Add label and initial value {{u,uinitial,”label”}, umin,umax}

2d Graph

Manipulate Vertical Shift

ControlType The control for a parameter is decided

by Mathematica by the context, but this can be overridden

Slider, Slider2D PopupMenu

{{u,uinitial,”label”}, umin,umax},ControlType->PopupMenu SetterBar

{{u,uinitial,”label”},{u_v1,u_v2,…}},ControlType->SetterBar

PopupMenu

SetterBar

Control, Delimiter & Grid Control

Designates the parameter as a control Control[{{u,u_initial,”label”},u_min,u_max}

] Delimiter

Inserts Horizontal Line between controls Grid

Helps to organize your controls Grid[{a11,a12,…},{a21,a22,…},…}]

Save Definitions Will save anything that has been

defined outside the scope of the Manipulate command into the Manipulate Command

ImageSize Plot option

ImageSize -> Full

Putting on the Web Authoring to the Wolfram

Demonstrations Project Embedding in a Webpage

Save As CDF Html needed

<embed src=“yourfile.cdf” width=“xxx” height=“xxx”>

Deploy Standalone

Just creates the cdf file Embed in HTML

Creates code to copy and paste to your html file

Resources http://

reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/IntroductionToManipulate.cdf

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/howto/CreateAComputableDocumentFormatFile.cdf

http://staff.jccc.edu/rgrondahl/tangentlines.html