Calculus Lab Notes
Fall 2007

• Course Syllabus (in PDF)

Lab 1: Latex And Maple

• Week 1: (August 29/30)
• Navigating your Desktop (Basic Linux Commands)
• First Day Stuff (Goals for first day)
• Homework- First day
• Week 2: (September 5/6)
• For Lab today, continue working on the "Homework First Day" exercises.
• Work through this handout which explains some more about LaTeX. You'll turn in the file MVT.tex along with the first day HW solutions.
• Week 3: (September 12/13)
This week, we will introduce Maple. Below you will find an introduction to Maple and some Maple questions. Work through the examples, then test yourself by going through the questions.
• Intro to Maple. This is from our online calculus book, which is linked from here
• Here are the Maple homework questions and the email instructions.
• What do I turn in? The homework is due to me by 12:30PM on the day of our class meeting. For the first homework, please email the following things to me:
  1. Solution to the first LaTeX homework (that was the list of things to typeset). Email ONLY your .tex file.
  2. Your MVT.tex file from the second homework handout.
  3. Your Maple file from today's session (only the one answering the homework questions).
  Grading criteria:
  • 10/15 points if LaTeX and Maple can be run with no errors.
  • 5/15 points for clarity, brevity, correct answers.

Lab 2: A Stack of Books

• Week 4 (Sep 19/20)
This week we back off of Maple a little bit, and look more at LaTeX. We will learn how to insert figures into our document, and how to use labelling and referencing in LaTeX documents. We will introduce the Lab question today as well, and start working on our solutions.
• Lab 2 Questions, in PDF format
• Lab 2 Questions, LaTeX file
• The figure from Lab 2 (in PS format)
• Discussion before Lab 2 (How to insert Figures and use Labels/References)
• Page 2 of the discussion
• Grading Checklist and What to Turn In

Lab 3: The Spirograph

• Week 6 (Oct 3/4)
This week we will look at parametric curves and apply them to spirographs. We will also review the arc length formula and compute some integrals using Maple.
• Lab 3 Questions, in PDF format
• The figure from Lab 3 (in PS format)
• Grading Rubric and What to Turn In

Lab 4: Ants on a Doughnut

• The Lab
• Sample Maple File 1: Torus and Paths
• Sample Maple File: 3d Path
• Sample Maple File: 4th Path (with optimization)
• Checklist for Grading- Use the template to begin (with an Introduction, Discussion, etc.)

Lab 5

• Pre-Lab 5: How to do some Vector Calculus in Maple
• Lab 5 Questions: Isolating Perry Metric in a Quality Cell
  
• A Shorter Version with Specific Questions

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"