In class work done in Multivariable Calculus
    Spring '10, Math 236

    January and February, 2010



    (Last modified: Friday, February 26, 2010, 9:51 AM )


    1/27/10: Vector basics
    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.)
    1/29/10: Review of More Vector basics; In Class Practice
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    2 3D vectors (Maple file; right-or control-click to download; then open in Maple.)
    2/1/10: Components and Projections; Cross Product; In Class Practice
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    2/3/10: Cross Product; In Class Practice; Distance of a point from a line
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    2/5/10: Lines and Planes in Space; In Class Practice
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    2/8/10: Lines and Planes in Space - continued
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    Vector-Valued Functions (Maple file; right-or control-click to download; open in Maple.)
    2/10/10: Vector-Valued Functions, arclength
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    2/12/10: The Calculus of Vector-Valued Functions; Motion in Space
    Using Maple to find solutions to today's in-class work (these are commands you will find useful) (Maple file; right-or control-click to download; open in Maple.)
    Seeing graphically what's going on with today's in-class work (these are more advanced Maple commands; there's no need for you to learn how to do these). (Maple file; right-or control-click to download; open in Maple.)
    2/15/10: Practice with Motion in Space
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    2/17/10: Change of parameter, chain rule, parametrizing in terms of arclength
    2/19/10: Curvature
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    2/22/10: Unit Tangent Vectors, Principal Unit Normal Vectors, and the Tangent and Normal Components of Acceleration
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    2/24/10: Intro to Surfaces
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    Traces and Surfaces with Maple (Maple file; right-or control-click to download; open in Maple.)
    2/26/10: More Practice with Surfaces
    Solutions to today's in-class work
    More Traces and Surfaces with Maple (Maple file; right-or control-click to download; open in Maple.)




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