Doing algebra on the HP50g

[Mark Hardman]

(04-02-2014 09:37 PM)Peter Murphy Wrote:  Can anyone point me to a thorough discussion of how the 50g can be used in school algebra? The more I look, the more seeming secrets I see: COLLECT, DIV2, LAGRANGE and other commands can be used to do wonderful things, for example.

You might start with the excellent Learning Modules provided on HP.com.

Of interest to you might be:

• Training Aid Introduction
• Using the Equation Writer
• Using the Equation Writer - part 2
• Solving for roots of polynomials and quadratics
• Curve Fitting
• Using the Numeric Solver to solve a formula
• The basics of plotting functions
• Calculations involving plots
• Numeric Differentiation
• Numeric integration
• Symbolic integration of polynomials
• Symbolic integration of trig functions
• Symbolic Differentiation
• Solving for zeroes of a function
  

Mark Hardman