I am having trouble trying to perform some of the computations listed in the Maple Advanced Engineering Mathematics E-book.  I directly copy and paste the text into my worksheet but Maple does not compute the answer as shown in the e-book.  It simply rewrites what I copied in a different format.  For example I'll write:

simplify(CrossProduct('A' , 'E') ) ;

Instead of computing the answer it just rewrites my input in a differnent way like this:

=CrossProduct((cos(p)-psin(p),-2sin(p)-pcos(p))

Hi I am trying to integrate the product of two matrices.  The independent variable is "x" and the constant is "L".  The two matrices are H and B.  I would like to integrate the two matrices on the x-domain from x= 0 to L.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Also I am new to Maple.  Is there a good beginner's book that would cover topics like matrix integration?  Thanks-Tom

H= [1, x, x^2, x^3]          (1x4 matrix)