MA162, Section 4
Course Information
Links to Labs
On the
Mathematical Sciences Instruction Page
Other Mathematica Stuff
- The Random Test Generator
is a Mathematica notebook which will generate random
Integration Skills Quizzes
for practice. To download this to your account, hold the shift
key down while you click the left mouse button.
- A Mathematica notebook,
taylor.ma, contains
mathematica commands which can be used to
generate plots of Taylor polynomials for E^x, ln(1+x), and sqrt(x)
to see the convergence.
To download this to your account, hold the Shift key while
you click the left mouse button.
Or try the new-and-improved (but untested) version:
taylornew.nb
- A Mathematica notebook,
slopes.nb, contains
mathematica commands which can be used to
generate slope fields.
To download this to your account, hold the Shift key while
you click the left mouse button.
- A Mathematica notebook,
lintrans.nb, contains
mathematica commands to investigate the action of
a matrix on a vector in 2-D.
A similar notebook,
lin3D.nb,
handles vectors and matrices in 3-D.
To download this to your account, hold the Shift key while
you click the left mouse button.
- The Mathematica notebook,
eigen.nb, contains
mathematica commands to investigate the
eigenvectors of 2x2 and 3x3 matrices both graphically
and algebraically.
To download this to your account, hold the Shift key while
you click the left mouse button.
- A Mathematica notebook,
dets.nb, contains
mathematica commands to investigate the action of
a matrix on a unit cube in 2-D and 3-D, giving a visualization
of the determinant.
To download this to your account, hold the Shift key while
you click the left mouse button.
Some pictures
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