creating a mathematica demonstration from scratch

CREATING A MATHEMATICA DEMONSTRATION FROM SCRATCH

Software Requirements

To Create Mathematica Version 8

To View Mathematica is not needed CDF Player browser plug-in I’ve tested IE / Chrome / Safari / Firefox

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