Examples: Showcase for Hobbyists

webMathematica opens up new ways to showcase personal research with eye-catching visualizations and interactive calculations.

To provide an extremely affordable way to do this, webMathematica Amateur is available free of charge to subscribers to our Premier Service program. This version of webMathematica is subject to certain restrictions, the most important of which is that sites need to be freely accessible across the entire internet. Sites must also display a webMathematica banner.

Analytic Cycling is a recreational website that takes advantage of the webMathematica engine. Designed for technically oriented cyclists, Analytic Cycling offers web-based calculators that take a no-compromise, textbook approach to computing cycling performance. The site writes the equations of motion, expresses them as differential equations, and uses the power of Mathematica to give numeric solutions that can be plotted or evaluated to find parameters of interest. Says Tom Compton, author of Analytic Cycling, "One can handle many types of web calculations with JavaScript, applets, CGI programs, PHP, etc. However, none of these are adequate when one needs differential equations. webMathematica provides these capabilities. In particular, webMathematica has demonstrated that it is a rich, robust interface from the web to Mathematica and Java." Tom Compton is an avid cyclist and long-time Mathematica user. He provides the site mostly as a "labor of love" for people interested in cycling, but his audience currently includes users from more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, please visit the Analytic Cycling site.