Wolfram Alpha Cheatsheet
The cheatsheets below are rewritten from Sam Cooper’s WolframAlpha Primer.
Getting Started with Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine or answer engine, based on Mathematica, a technical computing platform created by Stephen Wolfram, CEO of Wolfram Research.
A wonderful thing about Alpha is that its compiler is very smart and forgiving. Alpha does so much more than just maths - surprises. Wolfram MathWorld often has explainers on topics and examples. Once you’ve got an account, which Imperial has a campus license for, you have access to some of the more advanced features, such as step-by-step worked solutions.
Because WolframAlpha is basically a search engine, it is one of the easier tools to start using.
Creating your Account
It’s important to create an account with your Imperial email so that you get (free!) access to Pro Computing Time (which means Wolfram tries harder to answer your question before giving up).
To sign up, you first have to create a Wolfram account here. Use your long form imperial email address, i.e. name.surname21@imperial.ac.uk
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Once you’ve done that, you can request access to Pro Unlimited here.
If either of these two links are broken, Imperial has its own page on how to get set up here.
Engineering Mathematics Topics - Term 1
- 1. Refresher and Functions
- 2. Vectors
- 3. Matrices
- 4A. Linear Transformations
- 4B. Eigenproblems
- 5. Sequences and Power Series
- 6. Complex Numbers
- 7. ODEs
- (8. CHOs)
Engineering Mathematics Topics - Term 2
- 9. Laplace Transform
- 10. Fourier Series
- 11. MVC
- (12. PDEs. Application principles from MVC.)
- (13. Finite Methods)
- 14. Root Finding
- (15. Optimisation. Uses operations taught in earlier topics)
- 16. Normal Distribution