| 1/23/08: | Intro to multi - a function of several variables and a vector-valued function: (Maple file; download to your desktop by right-or control-clicking; then open in Maple.) |
| 1/25/08: | Practice with vectors |
| Solutions |
| 1/28/08: | Using scalar and/or vector products to begin thinking about lines and planes in space |
| Solutions |
| 1/30/08: | The graph of the plane 3x-z=0(Maple file; download by right- or control-clicking) |
| Working with lines and planes in space |
| Solutions |
| 2/1/08: | A few vector-valued functions(Maple file; download by right- or control-clicking) |
| 2/4/08: | Intro-working with vector-valued functions |
| 2/6/08: | Intro-working with vector-valued functions, revisited (cow in a tornado) |
| A visual display of where the cow is moving horizontally and where it's moving straight up/straight down(Maple file; download by right- or control-clicking) |
| Solutions to today's in-class work, using several Maple commands (like fsolve)(Maple file; download by right- or control-clicking) |
| Unfinished example from class - cow launched from tower |
| 2/8/08 | Curvature: an illustration on two circles(Maple file; download by right- or control-clicking) |
| 2/11/08: | Tangential and Normal Components of Acceleration |
| Solutions to Today's In-Class Work |
| 2/13/08: | Intro to Quadric Surfaces - sketching traces, and identifying |
| A few traces and quadric surfaces to display(Maple file; download by right- or control-clicking) |
| 2/15/08: | More on Quadric Surfaces - sketching traces, identifying,and finding equations |
| More traces and quadric surfaces to display(Maple file; download by right- or control-clicking) |
| 2/18/08: | Converting parametric equations into a relationship between x,y, and z. |
| 2/20/08: | Converting a relationship between x,y, and z into parametric equations. |
| Plotting surfaces in Maple w/ implicitplot3d vs with parametric equations; intro to multi-variate functions and ways to understand them with graphs other than graphs of surfaces(Maple file) |
| 2/22/08: | Level curves, contour plots, surfaces |
| 2/25/08: | Practice with showing a multivariate function doesn't have a limit |
| Visualizing limits of functions of 2 variables(Maple file) |
| 2/29/08: | Visualizing rates of change for functions of 2 variables(Maple file) |