Interactive Demonstrations using Mathematica

Jim Brandt

brandt@suu.edu

UCET presentation notebook located at
http://www.suu.edu/faculty/brandt/ucet09.nb

The Manipulate command in Mathematica simplifies the creation of interactive demonstrations that can be accessed in the classroom via the free Mathematica Player.

Thousands of demonstrations from a wide variety of topics are freely available online at the Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

Creating and editing demonstrations requires a full version of Mathematica.  In general, all demonstrations are based on the Manipulate command which has the syntax

Manipulate[

 Mathematica command involving a parameter,

{ parameter name, minimum value, maximum value }

]

Useful Links

Wolfram Demonstrations Project:

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/

Mathematica Player Download:
http://www.wolfram.com/products/player/download.cgi

Wolfram Education Portal:
http://www.wolfram.com/edu/

Free Online Mathematica Seminars
http://www.wolfram.com/services/education/seminars/

Built-in Help via Documentation Center

is available online at

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.html

or

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/IntroductionToManipulate.html