Math 232A/B
Engineering Mathematics
Spring, 2008

*Course information links

Course syllabus
Course calendar
Homework assignments. Solutions to problem set 22 are available here.
Formula Sheets for vector calculus | final exam
Concerning the course notes: Selected answers to exercises | Current list of errata
KnightVision (Get exam solutions and check the accuracy of recorded homework scores)
Professor Scofield's homepage (See for a current list of office hours)

* 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: Tuesday, 13-May-2008 09:04:33 EDT