Courses taught in Autumn Term, 2005
My timetable
for Autumn 2005.
For Your Attention this week
This part is for all students, in all my current courses.
Scroll down this page and look for the "New!" sign(s)
in the section relevant to your course.
It is intended to draw your attention to matters of interest during this
week.
The placement of these signs will keep changing as we progress through your
course, and as I add new links and remove old ones. Check regularly!
New! Week of December 5:
Pre-exam office hours
- Teacher-student Day Tuesday
December 6, 10:30am – 1pm
- MAT-NYA 04, 21E: Friday
December 9, 3pm – 5pm (changed
by popular request; corrected on Dec. 6)
- MAT-105 01 (Linear Algebra) Thursday
December 15, 12pm – 2pm
Calculus I, Science
Practice Sheets
Assignments
Goodies
- Continuity of a Piecewise defined Function: an Animation.
[PowerPoint
document on College Library site | ZIP
file containing the same Powerpoint, at my other site.]
- Exponential Growth
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Exponential Decay
and Archeology an amazing example. [Ref: Calculus with Analytic
Geometry, by H. Flanders and J. Price, Academic Press, 1978, page 176.]
- Exponential Functions: Tangents
and Slopes.
- The number e and its meaning
(University of Toronto)
- The number e to one
million digits, computed by Robert Nemiroff (George Mason University and
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
- The number e - history
- Lessons
in basic Maple, as applied to Calculus I - North Carolina State University
(link updated September 2004)
- Newton's
Method illustrated in Maple.
- New! Differentials
-Tangent line approximations. [PDF]
[ZIP]
- Maple worksheets for the Computer Lab:
The amazing Astroid
-1 | The amazing Astroid
-2| The natural
exponential function and its derivative| Newton's
Method
- Implicit Equations: Curves
and Tangents
- The MacTutor History
of Mathematics archive, University of St.Andrews, Scotland. Great biographies,
imaginative cross-references.
- Online Derivative
Calculator. Use it wisely.
Time out: fun stuff
- Deep
Thoughts by Great Minds (not all of them mathematicians.)
- Find your birthday or
phone number among the digits of Pi!
Notes
Maple syrup
- If you own Maple:
How to recapture the Maple Worksheet on which a webpage (HTML) is based?
Examples
Linear Algebra
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Last updated:
Thursday, December 15, 2005