RUTGERS MATH DEPARTMENT COURSE MATERIALS
Textbook:
The current textbook (first used Summer 2004) is James Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 5th edition, Brooks/Cole, 1999, ISBN 0-534-39321-7.Individual instructors' web pages for Fall 2006:
- Sections 1-6 (Prof. Zeilberger)
- Sections 16–18 (Prof. Luo)
- No other pages yet.
Maple:
To the instructor
One recitation class early in the term should be held in an Instructional Microcomputer Laboratory (IML) instead of the regular classroom. Reservations made by the department can be checked. Lecturers should announce details of this meeting and obtain copies of the printed material from the department mail room. These printed versions of the Maple Instructions and the description of Lab0 should be distributed in lecture before the meeting in the IML or at that meeting.
To the student
These instructions describe the traditional labs. If your instructor opts to use the alternate "new" labs, you will be given a procedure for obtaining those labs.
In the IML, you will obtain a copy of the seed file and supplementary worksheet from this page, start Maple and work through the instructions in Lab0. You should save your work in your eden directory in order to continue working on the lab. Your finished report will be collected in approximately two weeks. Lab0 will be graded in order to illustrate the grading standards for this work, but the grade will normally not be counted toward the course grade. As each lab is collected for grading, you should obtain the description and seed file for the next lab from this page (or another site provided by your instructor).
You will need to save a copy of the seed file to open in Maple. The best method, introduced in December 2002, uses the special mime-type application/x-maple-xml for the new xml format defined on the math server. The first time your browser meets one of these files, it should ask you what you want to do with it. The best choice is Save to Disk. If you are not given this choice, you should use one of the options below. (1) You can configure your browser's preferences to recognize these types and do something reasonable with them (it is possible to have the browser start maple, but this has only been tested on math department workstations, so "Save to Disk" may be the best choice) ; or (2) click the right mouse button on the link to get a context menu and select save to disk; or (3) (in Netscape) press the shift key and click the left mouse button to get the save to disk dialog directly; or (4) if your browser shows you the file as text, use the SaveAs item on the file menu to save a local copy. (This last option may be unreliable since it can introduce line feeds that will confuse the new worksheet format.)
The labs are being modified for the Fall 2006 semester. The printed versions of the Instructions and Lab 0 with the Fall 2006 date are available for instructors in the Department.
- The instructions and description of Lab 0 are here. However, the printed versions that instructors obtain from the department will be distributed at or before the class in the IML are better for holding in your hand while working through the lab.
- To work through Lab 0, download both the seed file and the supplementary worksheet, preferably saving them in your eden directory using WebDrive, start Maple with one of them, and open the other in the same Maple session. Work done in the two worksheets will be kept separate, but you can copy material from one worksheet to the other. The seed file will grow into the main worksheet that you submit for grading. The supplementary worksheet is not to be submitted for evaluation, but it may allow you to find a better approach to items on the main worksheet. Note: A misprint has been discovered in the seed file. In problem 6, the definition of Lines should be "Lines:=plot({seq(eval(LS,a=5*k*Pi/12),k=1..5)}):", that is with "a=5*k*Pi/12" instead of t equal to that expression.
- Maple Lab1 and the seed file and supplementary worksheet (follow instructions above to save to disk).
- Maple Lab2 and the seed file and supplementary worksheet (follow instructions above to save to disk).
- Maple Lab3 and the seed file and supplementary worksheet (follow instructions above to save to disk).
- Maple Lab4 and the seed file and supplementary worksheet (follow instructions above to save to disk).
Links:
Comments on this page should be sent to bumby@math.rutgers.edu, who created a semester page initially in Spring 2006 (previously, only a general course page and individual section pages were used).
Last updated: Monday, November 25, 2006