Math 215 – Calculus III

Maple Demos

Below are some interesting Maple Demos. Click on the "Preview" link to see the applications. Click on the "Worksheet" link if you would like to use the code that would be used in a Maple worksheet.

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13.1 Three-Dimensional Coordinate Systems

Description: Coordinate planes (animation), the first octant, point and its coordinates (animation).
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13.2 Vectors in 3D

Description: Vector v=<1,2,3> and its components(animation).
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13.4 The Cross-Product

Description: Cross-product of two vectors and the area of their span (animation).
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13.5 Equations of Lines and Planes

Description: Parametric line (animation), examples of planes, plane and its normal vectors (animation), plane trough three points (animation), line of intersection of two planes (animation).
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14.1 Parametric Curves

Description: Parametric curves and their radius-vectors (animations), tangent vectors (animation), reparametrization (animation) .
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14.3 TNB-frams and the Osculating Circle

Description: TNB-frame, osculating plane, and osculating circle of a curve (animation) .
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15.1 Functions of Two Variables: Graphs, Level Curves, Continuity

Description: Examples of some simple graphs of functions of two variables (animation), contour plots and level curves (animation), examples of surfaces with and without discontinuities (animation).
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15.3 Partial Derivatives and the Tangent Plane

Description: Tangent Plane to a graph of z=f(x,y). (animation).
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15.7 Functions of Two Variables: Maximum and Minimum Values

Description: Second Derivative Test, Standard and Rotated Quadratic Surfaces, General Case. Absolute Minima and Maxima.
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15.8 Constrained Optimization: Lagrange multipliers

Description: Two examples for Lagrange multipliers (animation).
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16.1 Double Integrals over Rectangles

Description: Riemann sum approximation for a double integral (animation).
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16.2 Iterated Integrals and Fubini's Theorem

Description: Calculation of a double integral using iterated integrals. Fubini's theorem (animation).
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16.7 Triple Integrals. Changing the Order of Integration

Description: Changing the order of integration (animation).
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16.8 Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates and Volume Elements for Triple Integrals

Description: Coordinate grids for cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinate systems, corresponding volume elements and their distortion (animation).
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17.1 Vector Fields

Description: Examples of two and three-dimensional vector fields (animation).
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17.1 "Inverse-square" Vector Fields

Description: Gravitational fields of the 'Earth' and 'Earth and Moon' with some equipotential surfaces (animation). Planar Electric fields (fields, equipotential curves, and flowlines) of a single source, two sources moving towards each other (animation), and a source and a sink moving towards each other (animation).
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17.1 "Wind Blow"

Description: Examples of the (velocity vector field of the) wind blowing past different obstacles (animation).
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17.2 Line Integrals

Description: Line integrals with respect to arclength, dx, and dy (animation).
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17.5 Curl

Description: 2-D vector field with rotating paddle wheels (animation) and its curl as a 3-D vector field (animation).
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17.7 Flux

Description: Flux of a constant vector field through an area with a changing angle w.r.t. the field (animation) and through a closed parabolic surface (animation).
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