Powerful Software for Physics Computations.
By physicists, for physicists

Maple Physics Package

Maplesoft provides the essential math environment for scientific research. By combining the world’s most advanced symbolic computation engine with powerful numeric algorithms, advanced visualization tools, and intuitive interfaces, Maplesoft products are helping physicists around the world deepen our understanding of how the universe works.

• The most comprehensive support for undergraduate, graduate, and research level physics of any mathematical software package


• Interactive explorations and mathematical programming language for developing more complex solutions, algorithms, and applications


• Powerful and flexible visualization tools for 2-D and 3-D plotting and animations


• Full technical document environment which combines live calculations with explanations, pencil-and-paper style input, textbook-quality results, images, and more

Maple has the most comprehensive support for physics of any mathematical software package.

Because of the frequent use of anti-commutative and non-commutative variables, functions, vectors, tensors and matrices; specialized rules and operators; and extremely complex notation, algebraic computations in physics are a serious challenge for most mathematical software. While some specialized systems handle a small fraction of this domain, Maple is the only system that provides the ability to handle a wide range of physics computations as well as pencil-and-paper style input and textbook-quality display of results. In addition, the Physics package is an integral part of the entire Maple system, so using Maple for physics also gives you access to Maple’s full mathematical power, programming language, visualization routines, and document creation tools.

The section below lists Maple’s capabilities in algebraic computations in physics. In every case, problems in that area can be expressed in Maple using the same notation as you would use when writing the problem on paper, and the results are displayed in the same way as they would be shown in a textbook.