I can't believe I've just spent a half hour trying to do the simplest thing:

The second example is copied straight out of Tutorial 2.  I'm doing just what the tutorial says: right-click, Solve, Solve for Variable.  I've tried disabling everything in my startup profile, recalculating, restarting, etc.  Why in the world can't I do this simple thing?

Solve_for_variable.mw

Units seem to be interfering with elementwise square roots.  I have with(Units[Standard]): in my .mapleprofile since I frequently use units.  I am working on a document which uses units but also requires computing the elementwise square root of a 2x1 vector.

If I boil this down to the very simple document attached, you can see that the units package is somehow interfering with the square root of a vector of numbers without units, but doing an elementwise square root doesn't work either.  I have tried removing the with(Units[Standard]): line in the startup file for this document and recomputing, but nothing changes.

I don't see how to do elementwise square roots in this situation.  Is there a workaround, or am I missing something?

Thanks,

Gerrit

Elementwise_Square_Root.mw

I've tried every which way to get the Bezier Curves task to work.  I have embedded it in an existing document and in a new one using Tools / Tasks / Bezier Curves, and it doesn't work at all for me.  Sometimes I get errors when I click Initialize (not always), and I never get any reaction from clicking or dragging in the plot.  Is this me or the task?

I also can't see any of the inner workings of the task.  I don't see how the slider connects to the n variable, or how the plot is generated, or where the plot points come from.  Therefore I can't see how to customize the task for my use.

I've seen other Maple documents like this in Help, too.  How do I see and modify the inner workings of these documents?

I'm a new Maple user so there may be a better way to do this, but Maple is not handling units the way I would expect.

Here is an example document (inline graphical below, also here: Plots_With_Units.mw) showing the impedance of a parallel resistor, inductor, and capacitor.  The plot is correct and it shows kHz along the abscissa like I want.  In order to get this I used kHz in the range fr, which is fine, but I had to also use kHz in the basic definition functions for Zl and Zc.

Now in order to get correct results from any of the Z functions I must use them with a kHz argument for f.  If I want to use them where other unit multipliers are more appropriate they won't work right, and many times I don't know what the appropriate multiplier should be until I'm into the design.  Then I need to go back and change the multipliers in the functions.  Or maybe in a single design I'll want to show Hz and kHz for the same function.

This seems like confusing units and dimensions.  The dimensions of inductive impedance (Zl), for example, can be expressed as frequency times inductance.  Whether the frequency is in units of Hz, kHz, or uHz doesn't matter and should simply scale the results.  I should be able to specify functions in dimensions and use units elsewhere as I want for convenient plotting and result formatting.

Is there a better way to do this, or is it a limitation in Maple?  The overall goal is to define functions with units but be able to use them and to format plots in whatever other units I like.

I'm a brand-new Maple user, so be gentle!

I was fooling around with a document and manually changed some fonts on various items, by just highlighting them and setting a new font.  I even selected everything and changed the font but not the size.  I didn't actually change any styles. 

I want to reset to the Maple default now, but can't seem to do it.  Format / Manage Style Sets... / Default Maple Style Set / OK doesn't do it, neither does Format / Manage Style Sets... / Load Style Set... navigating to the default stylesets\WorksheetDefault.mw and OK / OK.  Nothing seems to change.  I've been through Help:worksheet/documenting/styles and the verbiage doesn't match the dialog box screen shots there.  I'm not really sure what to do with that "help".

I can't seem to switch to a customized style set either.  If you manually change fonts, does that supercede the style?  Is there any way to revert?

Thanks for any help!