Math 232A
Engineering Mathematics
Fall, 2007

*Course information links

Course syllabus
Course calendar
Completed notes for vector calculus (current as of Wed., Nov. 28)
Homework assignments
Professor Stob's class page
KnightVision (use for getting exam solutions and checking the accuracy of homework scores)
Professor Scofield's homepage

* Links to topics related to MATH 232

A list of Flash Mathlets, authored by Barbara Kaskosz of the University of Rhode Island
Mathlets for plotting parametrized curves in 2D | in 3D
Mathlet for graphing surfaces written in the form z = f(x,y)
Mathlet for plotting parametrized curves
Applet for various types of numerical integration techniques
An applet for plotting planar vector fields

* Links to topics related to MATH 162

Integration:
Online Mathematica integrator (must use Mathematica syntax for expressions)
Applet to carry out numerical integration
Functions of two variables:
plotter providing graph, contour plots and directional derivatives
The relationship between level curves and a particular surface
An illustration of the meaning of directional derivatives
A tangent plane applet
Some demos of multiple integration by Riemann sums (Paul Blanchard, Boston Univ.)
Other topics:
Quadric surfaces and their cross-sections
Parametrized surfaces: a torus | a helicoid
Changes of variables: polar to rectangular coordinates | a nonlinear transformation
The meaning of cylindrical coordinates
An illustration of the parametrization of a line

* Software links

Octave:
Download it from here (be sure to get a version appropriate for your operating system!)
An Octave tutorial
R website
The Mathematics Visualization Toolkit, a powerful, free tool for graphing functions
Mozilla homepage, for its Firefox2 web browser
Get Adobe's Acrobat Reader 8.1

This page maintained by:
Thomas L. Scofield
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Calvin College

Last Modified: Friday, 25-Jan-2008 17:11:34 EST