Math 232A/B
Engineering Mathematics
Spring, 2009

*Course information links

Course syllabus
Course calendar
First chapter of course notes
Homework assignments.
Formula Sheets for statistics | vector calculus | final exam
KnightVision (Get exam solutions and check the accuracy of recorded homework scores)
Professor Scofield's homepage (Visit to see the current list of office hours)

* Links to topics related to MATH 232

Some online references:
Linear Algebra, by Jim Hefferon of Saint Michael's College
A First Course in Linear Algebra, by Robert A. Beezer of the University of Puget Sound
Introduction to Elementary Statistics Lecture Notes, by Muhammad El-Taha of the University of Southern Maine
Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models and Applications, by David W. Stockburger, Missouri State University
A list of Flash Mathlets webpage
Mathlets for plotting parametrized curves in 2D | in 3D
Mathlet for plotting parametrized surfaces
Applet for various types of numerical integration techniques
An applet for plotting planar vector fields
An applet for visualizing the thing computed in a flow/work integral

* 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 spherical 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 Firefox 3 web browser
Get Adobe's Acrobat Reader 9

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Thomas L. Scofield
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Calvin College

Last Modified: Monday, 02-Feb-2009 08:50:11 EST