Scientific calculators?

[Yell-O]

Does anyone know of a good scientific/graphing calculator app that has the same functions as a Ti 84-89. Basically I need it for calculus and engineering stuff when I don't feel like pulling out a real calculator...

 

[MathRulz]

Does anyone know of a good scientific/graphing calculator app that has the same functions as a Ti 84-89. Basically I need it for calculus and engineering stuff when I don't feel like pulling out a real calculator...

Texas Instruments sells its TI SmartView 84 Plus emulator software for both Windows and Mac OS.

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_smartview.html?subid=3&topid=265

I have used it on Windows and it works well. I haven't used the Mac version.

 

[paolo-]

Texas Instruments sells its TI SmartView 84 Plus emulator software for both Windows and Mac OS.

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_smartview.html?subid=3&topid=265

I have used it on Windows and it works well. I haven't used the Mac version.

159$ is laughable. You can get MATLAB's student licence for 89$...

I personally use spotlight (command+space) for little calculations. Mac OS' Grapher for plotting simple functions. I run Python in terminal for algebraic math in simple problems. And finally MATLAB when **** gets real.

There's also PEMDAS for the dashboard that's pretty decent and more calculator like.

 

[MathRulz]

159$ is laughable. You can get MATLAB's student licence for 89$...

I personally use spotlight (command+space) for little calculations. Mac OS' Grapher for plotting simple functions. I run Python in terminal for algebraic math in simple problems. And finally MATLAB when **** gets real.

There's also PEMDAS for the dashboard that's pretty decent and more calculator like.

I paid $0. Check your institution. You said you wanted graphing calculator software that had the same functions as a TI 84. That's not what Matlab is. Can't get closer than this emulator. I use Wolfram's Mathematica for the heavy duty stuff or for projects I assign. Mathematica is the premier symbolic math program. Our students get it free for the year. Matlab seems to be more popular in engineering departments though.

 

[telecomm]

I personally use spotlight (command+space) for little calculations.

Nice! Didn't know about that one. (For serious stuff I've been using Sage recently.)

 

[istlota]

I personally see no wisdom in spending a hundred bucks or so for a graphing calculator unless that is a requirement for a course in which you are enrolled. Even then, some profs will not allow graphing calcs to be used during exams. As a tool for use doing homework assignments, Grapher, which is bundled with Mac OS X, is actually not a bad graphing calc app.

But, as suggested in earlier posts here, there are some situations when coding graphs using python offers advantages over a graphing calculator. Producing research paper quality work is one of those situations. It is not necessary to buy a MATLAB license. An excellent open source alternative to MATLAB, used by many scientists, is matplotlib:

http://matplotlib.org/index.html

There are many excellent matplotlib tutorials on the Net. My favorite is :

http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/teaching/matplotlib/

Engineering/science undergrads and beyond would be well served to become familiar with open source scientific packages for python such as [sympy (a CAS), numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and mayavi] which are bundled with sage if that is the Way you wish to go:

http://sagemath.org/

My personal choice was to install MacPorts of the open source scientific packages, rather than sage, because I wanted to use PyCharm as my python IDE:

http://www.macports.org/

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/