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Introduction to the use of SMath Studio
Prepared by Gilberto E. Urroz, May 2010
Where to find
SMath Studio?
SMath Studio 0.88
is freeware that produces notebook type of mathematical calculations.
You can download
SMath Studio
at this web site:
http://en.smath.info/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=425
Getting started
You will find the icon for
SMath Studio
in the folder
SMath\SMath Studio
under your
Program Files
folder in your
Windows
machine, or under your
Program Files (x86)
folder if you have a
64-bit
version of
Windows.
The program is called
SMathStudio_Desktop.exe.
You may want to create a shortcut to the program to place in
your desktop or in your
Quick Launch.
Double click on the program icon or on the
shortcut to open the
SMath Studio
interface.
The
SMath Studio
interface
To get started, find the
SMath
Studio Desktop
icon in your
Start>Programs
button in
Windows. The
SMath Studio
interface is shown here.
The interface shows a main
window with menus, a toolbar,
and a number of palettes on the
right-hand side of the interface.
The palettes contain
mathematical, graphical, and
programming functions that can
be placed in the main window
with the purpose of calculating
mathematical expression,
producing graphs, or building
small programs.
The
SMath Studio
menus
The
SMath Studio
interface
contains menus entitled
File,
Edit, View, Insert, Calculation,
Tools, Pages,
and
Help.
Besides these 8 menus, there is also a menu indicated by a page
icon located to the left of the menu bar. We'll refer to this menu as the
Control
menu.
Explore the different menus to become acquainted with the various options available in
them. The operation of the
Control, File,
and
Edit
menus is very similar to those of
other
Windows
applications, hence, the item therein contained would be familiar to
Windows
users. Other menus are presented below.
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The
Help
menu
The
Help
menu contains the option
Reference book…
which represents a modest attempt
by the author to address basic mathematical operations and definitions. The contents of
the
Reference book
are shown in the figure below. To find the contents of a particular
section of the
Reference book,
click on that section. For example, to see the contents of
the section entitled
Identical Transformations,
click on the corresponding link to produce
the screen in the middle. If you click on the link entitled
Properties of arithmetic roots,
you get the screen shown to the right in the figure below. This provides some basic
properties of limits that can be useful to review those concepts from algebra.
You can go back one page in the
Reference book
by pressing the option
Back,
or return to
the Contents page by pressing the option
Home.
The menu option
Copy
lets you copy
equations from the
Reference book
that you can then paste in the main interface. To copy
a specific equation, first highlight the equation you want to copy, then press
Copy,
and
paste the equation (using, for example,
Cntl-v)
onto the main screen.
The
Help
menu also contains the option
Examples,
which opens the following menu of
examples:
Click on a given example to select it, and press the [ Open ] button. The worksheet
corresponding to the example
Numeric integration method (Simpson's rule)
is shown
below.
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The
Pages
menu
The
Pages
menu shows the pages (worksheets) currently
open. After having opened the worksheet for the
example shown above, the
Pages
menu will show two
pages open, namely,
Page1,the
default page open when
we started
SMath Studio,
and
Simpson.sm,
the worksheet
we just opened from the
Examples
menu.
The
Pages
menu also shows the options
New page
and
Close page,
whose operation is
obvious.
The
Tools
menu
The
Tools
menu has two items (Options... and
Plugins...).
The
Options...
item opens the
following dialogue form with two tabs as shown below.
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The
Calculation
tab in the
Options
interface lets you modify basic settings for
mathematical calculations, whereas the
Interface
option deals with properties of the
interface window. Click on the different drop-down menus to select the setting you
would like to change.
The
Plugins
item in the
Tools
menu produces the following interface:
SMath Studio 0.88
includes the three plugins shown above, namely:
•
•
•
HTML Export:
allows to save files to HTML format
Special Functions:
handles a number of functions. Scroll down the cursor to the
right to see all functions available. A brief description of the functions is
included.
XMCD Files:
allows to save and open XMCD files. This format is used by the
commercial software
Mathcad.
The
Insert
menu
The
Insert
menu allows inserting a variety of items into the worksheet (or page), as
indicated in the figure below:
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When you select the option
Matrix..
, for example, it produces an entry form that allows
you build a matrix of a pre-determined size:
The option
Function…
opens up a menu of mathematical functions, i.e.,
Selecting the option
Operator…
in the
Insert
menu produces a list of Boolean, arithmetic,
and other operators, e.g.,
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