Maple9 is available for students, and installation instructions can be obtained from Computing Services.

You can learn a lot about Maple by reading its help... Learning Maple is not a requirement for the class, and you can obtain maximum scores and achieve complete understanding of the material without ever using this software. Such type of knowledge may ease a bit your life in Math 23, or may come handy with other occasions during your study years. I strongly encourage you to get familiar with Maple.

Here is the link to a comprehensive introduction to Maple.

Finally, below are some graphs that I have obtained, using Maple (or Mathematica), when I prepared the lectures for our class. Feel free to cut-and-paste any Maple command contained in the files, and use them to start learning how to work with Maple.
 
 

March 29, 2004	Introduction to differential equations; Direction fields
April 2004	The wronskian
April 22, 2004	Chapter 7: eigenvalues and eigenvectors (pdf)
May 10, 2004	Chapter 5: Series solutions of ODEs (thanks to Scott Pauls)
May 14, 2004	Chapter 10: graphing Fourier series
May 19, 2004	Chapter 10: heat equation
May 28, 2004	Chapter 10: wave equation
June 2, 2004	Chapter 10: Laplace equation (Dirichlet problem)