Mathematica

Mathematica is a useful although sometimes mysterious program for symbolic computations. These pages will attempt to highlight some of the more important or ambiguous features available.

A Guide to Mathematica

• Commenting in Mathematica
• Plotting in Mathematica

Some Example Notebooks

WARNING! Nothing here has been edited for accuracy or clarity. These notebooks simply provide a few examples of figures that have been made in Mathematica.

Sina’s Old Stat Mech Homework Notebooks

These notebooks were used to create figures required for my Statistical Mechanics course (PHYS 7230).

Bridged Pentacene Dimer Rotations

This notebook was used to make cool GIFs and compare different types of rotations of a bridged pentacene dimer. It demonstrates how to make and manipulate complex 3D graphics and also parameter manipulation within a plot.

JDE Model and Clock Transitions

These notebooks were generated while writing the clock transition paper.¹ The initial half of the JDE Model notebook demonstrates how commenting can be used in various way in Mathematica to help clarify what is being done and why. The Avoided Crossing notebook demonstrates various ways that 3D plots can be manipulated to generate somewhat decent figures.