PTC Mathcad Blog Posts

March 24, 2020

My personal reasons why I upgraded to Mathcad Prime 6.0.

January 14, 2020

Using Mathcad to determine if the Philadelphia Eagles have a December curse.

December 16, 2019

Mathcad's READEXCEL function and Creo Parametric Prime Analysis features

December 13, 2019

Math shows that the Death Star was actually a terrible design from a strategic and tactical standpoint.

May 01, 2019

How to use the new Chart Tool for creating 2D plots in PTC Mathcad Prime 5.0.

February 06, 2019

Using Bayes Theorem to help make better decisions in your love life. Math can help you in relationships!

December 04, 2018

This article explains why your CAD models and designs should be linked to and driven by engineering math software like PTC Mathcad.

September 12, 2018

Using PTC Mathcad to examine three aspects of Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance.

July 23, 2018

Using PTC Mathcad to compute and plot the random behavior of Brownian motion and Levy Walks to simulate shark movement in different environments.

July 17, 2018

Evaluating the implications of traveling under Impulse Power in Star Trek on power and relativistic effects.

July 02, 2018

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June 06, 2018

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April 19, 2018

Analyzing warp speeds in Star Trek: The Original Series versus The Next Generation.

April 09, 2018

I use analysis of the NCAA March Madness Final Four seeds to illustrate the capabilities and advantages of using programming functionality in PTC Mathcad to uncover trends in your data.

March 22, 2018

I get called onto the carpet to explain how math couldn't predict the historical upset of #16 University of Maryland Baltimore County over overall #1 seed Virginia.

March 08, 2018

Continuing on with our sports theme, I use PTC Mathcad to analyze 32 years of history regarding First Round upsets in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, a.k.a. March Madness.

February 18, 2018

A fun little exercise using advanced non-linear differential equations to calculate ski jump distances - and how far a certain masked vigilante could soar with an electrically-charged rigid cape.

February 01, 2018

Part 2 of our analysis of the opening coin toss for the Big Game on Sunday.

January 31, 2018

In part 1 of 2, I use PTC Mathcad to analyze the results of the coin toss that starts the big Sunday NFC - AFC Championship Game, and find some unexpected trends about the data.