# 11.2 Direction Fields # Art Belmonte, Summer 1996 # These are the shaded gray examples which appear in Section 11.2. # # NOTE! The DEtools package has been rewritten and expanded for Maple V # Release 4. To find out more, select Help -> Contents -> What's New -> # Symbolics -> DEtools. # > restart; with(DEtools); [DEnormal, DEplot, DEplot3d, Dchangevar, PDEchangecoords, PDEplot, autonomous, convertAlg, convertsys, dfieldplot, indicialeq, phaseportrait, reduceOrder, regularsp, translate, untranslate, varparam] # One thing which has changed in Release 4 is the syntax of the # dfieldplot command. For details, type ?dfieldplot at a Maple prompt. > dfieldplot(diff(y(x), x) = x*sin(y(x)), y(x), x=-2..2, y=-1..1); # Here is way (different from that originally given in CalcLabs with # Maple V) to plot a solution curve on top of the direction field for # the preceding differential equation. It is preferable for two reasons: # 1. It uses one command instead of five. # 2. It works with differential equations for which no explicit # solution can be found. > DEplot({diff(y(x), x) = x*sin(y(x))}, {y(x)}, > x=-2..2, [[y(0)=1/4]], y=-1..1); >