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The materials offered on this website have been developed by many individuals over a period of several years. The text supplements and the lab manuals were originally written by Charles Doering and Deborah Alterman under support from a FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Significant modifications to these materials were made by Arthur Wasserman partly due to valuable suggestions by Chris Heath, Jesse Otero, and Ralf Wittenberg. As part of a VIGRE (Vertically Integrated Grants for Research and Education) project funded by the National Science Foundation, Dan Rogalski gathered feedback from lab instructors and together with Jesse Otero made suggestions for further changes to the lab manuals.
Peter Miller updated the text supplements and lab manuals for posting on this website, and the updated labs were tested by Ran Tao and Jon Sockolosky. Arthur Wasserman made significant changes to (some of) the resulting lab manuals, and all of the labs were subsequently updated and rewritten to a greater or lesser extent by Gavin LaRose.
This website is managed using a script written by Jason Howald. The web-based homework problems were originally written by Gavin LaRose. Extensions to those were made by Richard White in collaboration with Gavin LaRose and Peter Miller with the help of funding from CRLT and LS&A. Matlab demonstrations added to the site were written by Justin Dunmyre and Gavin LaRose with the help of funding from the LS&A Instructional Technology Committee. We thank CRLT and the LSAITC for their support of technology used in the course.
Lab 1 uses dfield8.m and Lab 5 uses pplane8.m, both Matlab programs written by John Polking of Rice University. Thank you to Professor Polking for making these files freely available for educational use.
Thank you also to Mark Gockenbach of Michigan Tech for letting us provide links to his Matlab tutorial.