In class work done in Multivariable Calculus
    Spring '08, Math 236

    March, 2008



    (Last modified: Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 9:52 AM )


    3/3/08: Classifying critical points using contour plots (a Maple file - right click to download)
    Solutions to Today's In-Class Work
    3/5/08: Tangent Planes (a Maple file)
    Sketch of development of definition of differentiability
    3/7/08: The Chain Rule
    Solutions to Today's In-Class Work
    Motivating the chain rule (a Maple file)
    3/17/08: Implicit Differentiation
    Solutions to Today's In-Class Work
    3/19/08: Partial Derivative vs Directional Derivatives (a Maple file)
    Directional Derivatives
    Solutions to Today's In-Class Work
    3/21/08: The Gradient is Points in the direction of maximum rate of change (a Maple file)
    Finding the Direction of Maximum/Minimum change
    Solutions to Today's In-Class Work
    3/24/08: The Gradient is Orthogonal to Level Curves (a Maple file)
    Using the Gradient to think about Tangent Planes
    Solutions to Today's In-Class Work
    3/26/08: Graphs for Today's In-Class work (a Maple file)
    Finding and classifying critical points
    Solutions to Today's In-Class Work
    3/28/08: Method of Steepest Ascent, Linear Regression (a Maple file)
    Working with Method of Least Squares; Optimization with a boundary
    2nd Maple file of the day (a Maple file)
    Solutions to Today's In-Class Work
    3/31/08: Intro to Double Integrals - display
    Intro to double integrals - in-class work




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