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    Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0: A Guide for New and Current Users
    Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0: A Guide for New and Current Users
    Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0: A Guide for New and Current Users
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    Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0: A Guide for New and Current Users

    By Brent Maxfield

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    Learn how to use PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0, one of the world’s leading tools for technical computing, in the context of engineering, science, and math applications. Quickly harness the power of PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 to solve both simple and complex problems. Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0 is perfect for college students, first-time users, and experienced Mathcad 15 users who are moving to PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0.

    Updated from Maxfield’s popular Essential Mathcad, this book introduces the most powerful functions and features of the new PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 software and teaches how to apply them to create comprehensive calculations for any quantitative subject. Examples from several fields demonstrate the power and utility of PTC Mathcad’s tools while also demonstrating how users can eff ectively incorporate Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets into the software.

    • Learn the basics faster: Chapter 1 introduces many fundamentals of Mathcad, allowing the reader to begin using the program in less time.
    • Learn PTC Mathcad tools in context: Incorporates many applied examples and problems from a widevariety of disciplines.
    • Thorough discussion of many PTC Mathcad tools: Units, arrays, plotting, solving, symbolic calculations, programming, algebra, calculus, differential equations, reading from files, writing to files, and incorporating MS Excel spreadsheets.
    • Includes a link to PTC with instructions on how to purchase the PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0 Student Edition (The Student Edition software is intended for educational purposes only.)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateOct 9, 2013
    ISBN9780124104587
    Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0: A Guide for New and Current Users
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    Brent Maxfield

    Brent Maxfield is a Professional Structural Engineer in Utah and a Professional Civil Engineering in California. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brigham Young University with a degree in Civil Engineering and earned a Master of Engineering Management degree. He is active in professional associations, having served on the Board of Directors of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah and in the Structural Advisory Committee to the Utah Uniform Building Codes Commission. He has used Mathcad extensively for nearly 20 years. In Essential Mathcad, Maxfield shares his vast Mathcad experience and knowledge.

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      Essential PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0 - Brent Maxfield

      Maxfield

      Part I

      Building Your PTC Mathcad Toolbox

      Outline

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 An Introduction to PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0

      Chapter 2 PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0 for Current Mathcad 15 Users

      Chapter 3 Variables and Regions

      Chapter 4 Simple Functions

      Chapter 5 Units!

      Introduction

      Your PTC Mathcad tools are stored in your PTC Mathcad toolbox. Your PTC Mathcad toolbox is the place where you will store your PTC Mathcad skills, which will be discussed in Parts II and III. You first build your PTC Mathcad toolbox by learning about the basics of the PTC Mathcad program and the PTC Mathcad worksheet. The chapters in Part I teach about variables, expression editing, user-defined functions, and units. These chapters create a foundation upon which to build. They create your PTC Mathcad Toolbox.

      Chapter 1

      An Introduction to PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0

      Abstract

      The intent of this chapter was to get you up and running with PTC Mathcad by introducing key PTC Mathcad features. It is also intended to whet your appetite for the information covered in future chapters. The best way to gain an understanding of the concepts introduced in this chapter is to practice. If you have not done so already, open the PTC Mathcad Tutorials and go through the tutorials mentioned at the beginning of this chapter.

      Keywords

      PTC Mathcad programming; variable; simple expression; grouping; editing; equal signs; regions; functions; units; arrays; subscripts; plotting

      If you are a current Mathcad 15 user, glance quickly through this chapter to learn about some of the new features of PTC® Mathcad Prime® 3.0. Much of it will be review, but there are things to be learned. Chapter 2 will contain a much more in-depth review of PTC Mathcad Prime for current Mathcad 15 users.

      This chapter is intended to quickly teach you some fundamental PTC Mathcad concepts; we will only touch the surface. In later chapters, we will get into more depth, and build on the concepts covered in this chapter. This chapter also teaches techniques to create and edit PTC Mathcad expressions.

      Chapter 1 will:

      • Show how to do simple math in PTC Mathcad.

      • Teach how to assign and display variables.

      • Explain how to create and edit math expressions.

      • Demonstrate the grouping highlight for editing expressions.

      • Discuss the use of operators.

      • Briefly discuss the PTC Mathcad ribbon tabs.

      • Introduce and define math and text regions.

      • Introduce built-in and user-defined functions.

      • Introduce units.

      • Introduce arrays and subscripts.

      • Discuss the variable ORIGIN.

      • Describe the difference between literal and array subscripts.

      • Introduce range variables.

      • Introduce X-Y plots.

      • Encourage completing several PTC Mathcad Tutorials.

      Before You Begin

      If you don't already have PTC Mathcad installed on your computer, take a few minutes to download and install it. This will allow you to follow along and practice the concepts discussed in this book. It will also give you access to the PTC Mathcad Help and the Getting Started ribbon, which includes some PTC Mathcad Tutorials.

      Essential PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 is based on the U.S. version of PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0. It is also based on the U.S. keyboard. There may be slight differences in PTC Mathcad versions sold outside of the United States.

      It is suggested that you read and do the exercises in the PTC Mathcad Tutorial before or just after reading this chapter. You can open the PTC Mathcad Tutorial from the Getting Started tab in the Get Help in PTC Mathcad group (Getting Started>Get Help in PTC Mathcad>Tutorial). This opens the Tutorials in the PTC Mathcad Help Center. In this window you will see a list of PTC Mathcad exercises. You may choose to do them all, but for the purpose of this chapter, focus on the following topics: Entering and Evaluating an Expression, Editing an Equation, Defining and Evaluating Variables, Ordering Regions and Applying Labels, and Defining and Evaluating Functions. This chapter cannot replace the experience gained by completing the PTC Mathcad Tutorials.

      If the Getting Started button in the upper left of the PTC Mathcad window, select Options, and then select the Options tab at the bottom of the dialog box. If the Enable Getting Started Tab does not have a check, click the box to enable it.

      PTC Mathcad Basics

      Whenever you open PTC Mathcad, a blank worksheet appears. You can liken this worksheet to a clean sheet of calculation paper waiting for you to put information onto it. The PTC Mathcad default worksheet has graph paper-like gridlines enabled by default. The images in this book have the gridlines turned off. If you want to turn off the gridlines, select the Document tab and from the Page group, select the Show Grid control (Document>Page>Show Grid).

      Let's begin with some simple math. Type 5+3=. You should get the following:

      Now type 2+3 Spacebar Spacebar ∗2=. You should get the following:

      You can also assign variable names to these equations. To assign a value to a variable, type the variable name and then type the colon : key. For example type a1:5+3.

      Now type a1=. This evaluates and displays the value of variable a1.

      Let's assign another variable. Type b1:2+3 Spacebar Spacebar∗2.

      Now type b1=. This displays the value of variable b1.

      Now that values are assigned to variable a1 and variable b1, you can use these variables in equations. Type c1:a1+b1.

      Now type c1=. You should get the following result:

      As you begin using variables, it is important to understand the following PTC Mathcad protocol. In order to use a previously defined variable, the variable must be defined above or to the left of where it is being used. In other words, PTC Mathcad calculates from left to right, top to bottom.

      As you can see, PTC Mathcad does not require any programming language to perform simple operations. Simply type the equations as you would write them on paper.

      Creating Simple Math Expressions

      There are two ways to create a simple expression. The first way is to just type as you would say the expression. For example you say 2 plus 5, so you would type the following 2+5. You say 2 to the 4th power, so you would type 2ˆ 4100.

      The second way to create a simple expression is to type an operator such as +, —, ∗, or /. This will create empty placeholders (gray boxes) that you can then click to fill in the numbers or operands. For example, if you press the + key anywhere in your worksheet, you will get the following:

      Click in the first placeholder and type 2, then use the right arrow key twice to move to the second placeholder or click in the second placeholder and type 5. Your expression should now look like this:

      In this example 2 and 5 are operands of the addition (+) operator.

      You can use the above procedure with any operator. Let's try the exponent iation operator. Press ˆ to create the exponentiation operator. You can also click xy from the Operators control on the Math tab (Math>Operators and Symbols>Operators>Algebra>xy). You should have the following:

      Click in the lower placeholder and type 2, then use the right arrow key twice to move to the upper placeholder or click in the upper placeholder and type 4. Your expression should now look like this:

      These methods of creating expressions work very well for creating simple expressions. As your expressions become more complex, there are a few things that you must learn.

      Grouping

      Creating more complex math expressions is very easy once you learn the concept of the grouping of terms and the effect of cursor location. The cursor is the vertical line in the expression. Pressing the spacebar will begin to highlight and group a portion of the expression. The first press of the spacebar highlights the term adjacent to the cursor. Pressing the spacebar again will highlight and group more of the expression. For example, if you type 2+5 Spacebar Spacebar, you get the following:

      Whatever is highlighted or grouped becomes the operand for the next operator. So, if you type 2+5 Spacebar Spacebar ˆ 3, you get the following:

      In this case (2+5) is the x operand for the operator x to the power of y. Notice how the cursor is located adjacent to the number 3. This means that if you type any operator, the number 3 is the operand for the operator. Thus, if you type + 4, then you get the following:

      But, if you press the Spacebar twice, the grouping highlight expands to enclose the whole expression.

      This group becomes the operand for the next operator. Thus, if you now type + 4, you get the following:

      The whole expression became the operand for the addition operator.

      It is very important to understand this concept of using the grouping highlight to determine what the operand of your next operator will be. You can also use parentheses to set the operand for operators. The following example will help reinforce these concepts.

      Let's create the following expression:

      To create this expression, use the following steps:

      1. Type 1/2 Spacebar Spacebar. The grouping highlight now holds the fraction 1/2. This becomes the operand for the subtraction operator.

      2. Type − 1 / 3 Spacebar Spacebar Spacebar. The grouping highlight should now hold both fractions. This becomes the operand for the exponentiation operator.

      3. Type ˆ 2 Spacebar Spacebar. The grouping highlight should now hold the entire numerator. This becomes the operand for the division operator.

      4. Type / 4 /5 Spacebar Spacebar Spacebar. This makes everything under the radical the operand for the addition operator.

      5. Type + 2 / 7. This completes the example.

      Notice how during each step, the spacebar was used to enlarge the grouping highlight to include the operand for the following operator.

      The PTC Mathcad Tutorial has additional examples that provide worthwhile practice.

      Editing Expressions

      Another important concept to know is how to edit existing expressions.

      Selecting Characters

      If you click anywhere in an expression and begin pressing the spacebar, the grouping highlight expands to include more and more of the expression. How the grouping highlight expands depends on where you begin and on what side of a term the cursor is on. The best way to understand how it works is to experiment and to follow the examples in the PTC Mathcad Tutorial.

      The general rule is that as the grouping highlight expands and crosses an operator, the operand for that operator is then included within the grouping highlight.

      Deleting Characters

      You can delete characters in your expressions by moving the cursor adjacent to the character. If the cursor is to the left of the character, press the DELETE key. If the cursor is to the right of the character, press the BACKSPACE key.

      To delete multiple characters, drag select the portion of the expression you want to delete. If the cursor is to the left of the highlighted area, press the DELETE key. If the cursor is to the right of the highlighted area, press the BACKSPACE key.

      Deleting and Replacing Operators

      When you click an operator, the cursor disappears, the operator turns blue and flashes, and the operands for the operator are grouped on both sides of the operator. This is very useful to clearly understand the operands for the operators. The following examples illustrate various operators of the above example.

      To replace an operator, click the operator or move the cursor until the cursor crosses the operator and the operator changes to a blue color and flashes. Both operands should now be highlighted. Next press the DELETE key. This will delete the operator leaving a small dot where the operator used to be. Now, use the arrow key to cross over the dot. This will group the operands on both sides of the dot. You are now ready to type a new

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