As we have said before, the point of working through math and science problems is to learn the concepts. After you have solved a problem for the required answer, you still may have a few questions. In fact, you may not even understand fully what you have done or why. Unless you take the time to put the solution in context and generalize your result to other situations, you are not building any real understanding. Such understanding will help you solve the next problem more quickly (and help you do well on exams!).
In this chapter, we are not going to teach many new features of Mathcad. You have learned quite a bit so far and now we want to show you how Mathcad can be used to understand the concepts of a problem more completely.
