Lighting and Surface Properties (Mathematica Tutorial)

With the default option setting Lighting->Automatic, Mathematica uses a simulated lighting model to determine how to color polygons in three-dimensional graphics. Mathematica ...

ImplicitRungeKutta Method for NDSolve (Mathematica Tutorial)

Implicit Runge–Kutta methods have a number of desirable properties. The Gauss–Legendre methods, for example, are self-adjoint, meaning that they provide the same solution ...

Sparse Arrays: Manipulating Lists (Mathematica Tutorial)

Lists are normally specified in Mathematica just by giving explicit lists of their elements. But particularly in working with large arrays, it is often useful instead to be ...

String Representation of Boxes (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides a compact way of representing boxes in terms of strings. This is particularly convenient when you want to import or export specifications of boxes as ...

Creating Tables (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

SQLCreateTable creates a new table in a database. An alternative, using raw SQL, is described in "Creating Tables with Raw SQL". If you find that the examples in this ...

Units Package (Units Package Tutorial)

There are many systems of units. The particular set of units that is used depends on factors as various as the field of study and the author's country of origin. The function ...

ElementData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ElementData["name", " property"] gives the value of the specified property for the chemical element " name".ElementData[n, " property"] gives the specified property for the ...

General Graph Drawing (Mathematica Tutorial)

GraphPlot and GraphPlot3D calculate and plot a visually appealing 2D/3D layout of a graph. The functions are designed to work with very large graphs and handle both connected ...

Data Type Mapping (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

One of the most important issues for using a database is the conversion of data as it is stored and retrieved from a database. This tutorial will discuss how Mathematica ...

Grids, Rows, and Columns in Mathematica (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides a broad range of powerful constructs for laying out content on a screen or page. They are designed to be immediately useful for the beginner, yet also ...