The Mathematica Primer

The individual figures contained in the animation above were created using the following Mathematica commands:


f[a_] := (25-a^2)/25*Sin[(16-a^2)*x]

Table[Plot[f[a], {x, 0, Pi}, PlotPoints->100, PlotRange->{-1,1}],
   {a, -3, 3, 1/2}]

Inside Mathematica, you can point and click to animate the result. To put the animation on the web, we saved the figures as GIF files and then combined them using the GIF Construction Set from Alchemy Mindworks.


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Kevin Coombes
Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742.