When I was a physics student, I relied on a shareware "equation solver" called Mercury. This started out as a program from Borland, but when Borland stopped developing it, Roger Schlafly continued working on it and released the program under the new name Mercury.
You can read more about Mercury, and download a free copy:
http://www.spinstop.com/roger/eureka.htm
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