Mathematica Notebooks.
Instructions: Right-click on a link and choose to save the target as a file on the hard disk of your local machine or on your personal floppy disk. Then you can use Mathematica to open it.
To use the Tutorial it is recommended
that you be using a machine with the full Mathematica
program (e.g. in Russell 225). Follow these steps.
1. Start Mathematica
and then open the Tutorial with hyperlinks.
2. Next go to the File menu and
click on New in order to open a new blank Mathematica
Notebook. You should now see a blank Mathematica
window initially entitled Untitled-1 or Untitled-2, and (depending on the
settings on your particular computer) a window consisting of a number of
buttons; this window is called a palette (explained further in the tutorial).
3. It will be useful to display a
Tool Bar at the top of the blank window by opening the Format menu and then
going down to the bottom and clicking Show Tool Bar.
4. Presuming that you want to use
that notebook and save it for future reference (e.g. to print and turn in
as a homework assignment), it would be wise to immediately give your blank
notebook a name and save it in a desired location (usually to your personal
storage device.). You can do this by clicking on the File menu, clicking on
Save As, and, in the usual way, going to the desired location followed by
typing a name for your notebook and clicking Save; you do not have to worry
about typing the extension .nb since Mathematica will do so automatically.
5. Now go to the Windows menu and
click on "Tile Windows Wide". You will now see two windows; the
tutorial and your personal Mathematica Notebook.
6. Read the material in the tutorial
up to the "Starting the Program" subsection in section 1.
7. Skip to the subsection of section
2 entitled "A first calculation". From this point on carry out the
instructions in the PRACTICE sections in your personal Mathematica
Notebook. Note: Be sure to save often!