User Guide

Assistants and Tutors
Assistants and tutors provide point-and-click interfaces, with buttons, text
input regions, and sliders.
Assistants
Assistants help you accomplish many tasks, such as solving ordinary differ-
ential equations (ODEs) and ODE systems, creating plots and matrices, curve
fitting, and performing unit conversions (Figure 1.11).
• From the Tools menu, select Assistants, and then one of the topic sub-
menus.
For example:
To convert a quantity of 1 atomic mass unit to the equivalent value in grams,
use the Unit Convert Assistant.
1. From the Tools menu, select Unit Converter. The Unit Converter dialog
displays. See Figure 1.11.
2. In the Value text field, enter the value as measured in atomic mass units,
1.0.
3. In the Dimension drop-down list, select mass.
4. In the From drop-down list, select atomic mass units (u).
5. In the To drop-down list, select grams (g).
6. Click the Insert button. Maple inserts the value of the mass in grams,
, in the document. Note: The output has no units.
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