Murphy's Course Info

Syllabus

Calendar (tentative)

Homework List (tentative), Homework Portfolio instruction sheet

Office Hours

Introductions to Mathematica

• MATHEMATICA for Calculus IV (by Andy Miller)

• Jon's Mathematica Info & Examples (by Jon White)

• TJM's Mathematica Reference Sheet (adapted from works by Trisha Bergthold, Andy Miller, and Jon White)

• TJM's Introduction to Mathematica Lab: sample commands

Supplemental graphics for multivariable calculus.

Recognizing a Surface from Different Viewpoints: Results from a Questionnaire Item and Task-Based Interviews (I submitted this paper to the electronic proceedings of ICTCM 99 but until they make a decision, it'll be available here.)

CourseNet: http://coursenet.ou.edu

Advice from Former Students

Other relevant stuff

Jon White's Calc IV web site includes more Mathematica information and some things for his Calc IV section.

The Calculus at OU web site, includes information about the calculus sequence at OU and links to current instructors (created by Dr. Elena Black, as part of the Multivariable Calculus and Mathematica project funded by the College of Arts and Sciences at OU; maintained by Russell Goodman with funding from ???).

Trigonometry Review Sheet (this is a PDF file)

Tidbits from students

• Multivariable Calculus (at UCLA by Stephanie Hanna, Christian A. Herrera, Nicole Luque, Gabriela Mancilla, and Eugene Serdiouk) contains Calculus Applets and Solutions to selected problems from Stewart. Useful for students who do not have the solutions manual. (Found on the WWW by Tammy Epperson.)

• Mathematica at Work has anecdotes about how professionals have used Mathematica to facilitate problem solving and research. (Found on the WWW by James Kopelman.)

• Graphica offers pretty pictures from Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica. (Found on the WWW by Darci Forrester.)

Office Hours

Office Hours: Math 2443-003 and -004 students may attend any of the following scheduled office hours. The instructors are also available by appointment.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:30-9:20 PHSC 827 Jon White		8:30-9:20 PHSC 827 Jon White		8:30-9:20 PHSC 827 Jon White
12:00-1:00 PHSC 604 Dr. Murphy	12:00-1:00 PHSC 604 Dr. Murphy		12:00-1:00 PHSC 604 Dr. Murphy

Supplemental Graphics

Each of the HTML documents below is filled with graphics -- which might load slowly (just a warning). Each of the Mathematica notebooks below can be copy-and-pasted into a new Mathematica notebook -- use Select All under the Edit menu above, then use Copy under the Edit, open an empty Mathematica document and use the Paste option under the Edit menu in Mathematica, and click "yes" when Mathematica asks if you want the text converted to a notebook

Stewart, 3rd Edition	Title	Description	Notes
12.1	A Surface and Construction of a Contour Diagram by TJ Murphy with adaptations from work by Brad Kline at USAFA at Paul Goodey at OU	Shows traces and then animates the contruction of a contour diagram from the horizontal traces of a surface. (HTML) (Mathematicanotebook)	Lots of groovy contour diagrams are at HubCAPS: under "upper air" look for geopotential height at various constant pressures.
12.4	Construction of a Tangent Plane by TJ Murphy	Shows sequentially the construction of a tangent plane to a surface at a point. (HTML) (Mathematicanotebook)
12.6	Directional Derivatives and The Gradient Vector by TJ Murphy	Offers an intuition about directional derivatives and the gradient vector.
12.8	The Geometry of Lagrange Multipliers by Michael Hofer (University of Graz) and TJ Murphy	Shows the geometry of using Lagrange multipliers to optimize a surface subject to one constraint. (HTML) (Mathematicanotebook)
13.1, 13.2	Double Integrals by TJ Murphy	Animates the process of approximating the volume under a surface using a double Riemann sum and calculating the volume exactly using an iterated double integral. (HTML) (Mathematicanotebook)	shows the graphics corresponding to an exercise in Stewart's {\it Calculus} (3rd Ed., 1995, Section 13.1, p.837, #4); approximates the volume under a surface using a double Riemann sum, then calculates the volume exactly using an iterated double integral.
13.6	Surface Area by TJ Murphy	Shows the parallelograms that are used to approximate the area of a surface and discusses the derivation of the surface area integral from these parallelograms. (HTML) (Mathematicanotebook)
	Parametric Surfaces: Their Tangent Planes and Surface Areas by TJ Murphy	Shows a variety of surfaces defined parametrically; shows the calculations for equation for one tangent plane and the calculations for surface area for two surfaces. (HTML) (Mathematicanotebook)

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