Calculus Lab Notes
Fall 2002

Handouts and Samples

• Syllabus
• Sample LaTeX document, and the output should look like THIS
• Maple Command Summary Sheet
• Sample Document with Errors
(to try out ispell)
• Sunspot Data (as a sample file for Maple to read in)
• Example Maple file: Reading in a data set
• Final Lab Comments: Ants on a Doughnut

Labs

1. Homework Assignment 1 was to type up this document in LaTeX. The LaTeX code should look something like THIS
2. Lab 1: Parametric Curves and Arc Length
3. Maple Lab
4. Mathematical Preliminaries: Taylor Series
5. Lab 2: Building Blocks for Functions
6. Notes on Maple and Partial Derivatives
7. Lab 3: Solutions to the Wave Equation
8. Lab 4: Building a curve through data
9. Lab 5: Ants on a Doughnut (Postscript format)

1. How to share files between you and your partner (Look at "Using sftp to Transfer Files Between Accounts"
2. How to get/put information on a floppy drive (we don't use Windows, we use an operating system called "Linux", so this is different than you're used to... Look at "Using Windows Formatted Floppies"