Maple Files For Use In Class

These are Maple Release 4 files  for use in the computer classroom to explain mathematical comcepts.  To download a file RIGHT CLICK the file name and choose Save Link Target As.
 

• VECTORS

  • vector.mws Shows Maple commands for standard operations on vectors including differentiation and substitution.

  • arclength.mw Computes the length of a curve by approximating it by a piecewise linear curve.

  • standard-surfaces.mws Introduces the standard surfaces - cylinder, cone, ellipsoid, paraboloid.
     

• DIFFERENTIATION

  • approx2d.mws Computes the linear approximation of a function of two variables and shows the error and the percentage error in the approximation over different neighbourhoods of the expansion point.

  • critical-pts.mws Shows critical points need not be local max or local min.

  • maxmin.mws Motivates visually the method for optimizing functions over bounded regions.

  • lagrange.mw Motivates the method of lagrange multipliers by studying a constrained optimistaion problem using contours.

  • mixed-lagrange.mw An optimization example which requires unconstrained optimization (critical points) as well as constrained optimization (Lagrange multipliers).
    
     

• MULTIPLE INTEGRATION

  • suminteg.mws Approximates the mass of a non-rectangular, non-uniform plate by subdividing the plate into small squares.

  • threesurface.mw Describes how to plot a solid bounded by z=0, z=y, and y=1-x^2.

  • foursurface.mws Describes how to plot a solid bounded by z=0, z=3-y, y=x^2 and y=2-x^2.

• VECTOR FIELDS

  • vectorfield.mws Plots the vector fields (a) water flowing across an infinite cyl;inder (b) gravitational field due to a unit mass.

  • flux-flow.mws Plots a vector field and a curve and computes the flux across and the flow along of this vector field across the curve.

Please send comments to rakesh@udel.edu .