Maple Information for Math 251: Multivariate Calculus, Summer Section F7

Last updated: June 27th, 2008

This website was set up by Andrew Baxter to aid Dr. Irvine's summer Math 251 class with the two required Maple assignments.

Introduction to Maple

If you want to work through Lab 0 some more, you can find the pages here. Work through each "Playing with..." worksheet. You can ignore the "TeX Source" links. Be sure you've worked through the "Playing with Graphs" section, as all of the labs will require you to graph something.

Just for Fun:Try your hand at the Maple Skill Check. See the solutions.

The Assignments

There will be two Maple assignments this summer, corresponding to the second and fourth Maple assignments from the regular semester. Data you are to use for each assignment is listed after the help page. For each assignment you are encouraged to work with others (note group members on your assignment), but each student must hand in their own work.

The First Assignment

Due Date: Wednesday, July 9th.
Course Material: Vector-valued functions, Curvature (Chapter 13)
Instructions: Download here (PDF)
Assignment Help Page:View Here.
Your Curve: <cos(t)+2*sin(t), (cos(2*t)-cos(t))^2, sin(2*t)+sin(t)> (curvature at t=2 is 1.3366)

The Second Assignment

Due Date: Monday, July 28th.
Course Material: Multiple Integration, Cylindrical Coordinates (Chapter 15)
Instructions: Download here (PDF)
Assignment Help Page:View Here.
Data: Boundaries of two dimensional region: y=9.10*x+88.4 and y= 15.2*x^4-21.4*x^3+25.6*x^2+14.8*x+9.6
Area of the region: 153.267
Boundaries of three dimensional region: z=(1.57)*(x^2+y^2); x^2+y^2+z^2= (5.7)^2
Volume of the region: 30.757;
Density function: 10.1*x^4*z^2+17.4*y^4*z^4

Getting Extra Help

There are two sites which have been created to help you cope with common Maple issues:

Common Maple Errors gives help deciphering common error messages.
Common Lab Problems gives help dealing with when Maple gets bogged down due to Auto-Save and with common printing problems.

Feel free to email me at baxter[at]rci[dot]rutgers[dot]edu with questions regarding the Maple assignments. If you want help in person, please email me to set up an appointment (I no longer hold regular weekly office hours). My office is in the Hill Center, room 605.

If you doubt my expererience with Maple, see below. You can click on the image for the original Maple code. I drew each piece individually, using tools from the plots and the plottools packages.

Original Maple Worksheet (you can change the number of candles)