User Guide

For information on the evalf command, see Numerical Approxima-
tion (page 313).
For information on numeric integration, including iterated integration and
controlling the algorithm, refer to the ?evalf/Int help page.
To compute iterated integrals, line integrals, and surface integrals, use the
task templates (Tools>Tasks>Browse) in the Multivariate and Vector
Calculus folders.
Differential Equations
Maple has a powerful set of solvers for ordinary differential equations (ODEs)
and partial differential equations (PDEs), and systems of ODEs and PDEs.
For information on solving ODEs and PDEs, see Other Specialized Solv-
ers (page 88).
Calculus Packages
In addition to top-level calculus commands, Maple contains calculus pack-
ages.
VectorCalculus Package
The VectorCalculus package contains commands that perform multivariate
and vector calculus operations on VectorCalculus vectors (vectors with an
additional coordinate system attribute) and vector fields (vectors with addi-
tional coordinate system and vectorfield attributes), for example, Curl, Flux,
and Torsion.
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