Homework 1
Homework 1: Due Friday 14 January, 2005 For many of the
problems for which I state that no explanation is necessary, it still
might be a good idea to show your work and/or explain your
reasoning.
Autobiography: Write a brief paragraph (or send me an email)
describing the math classes you've taken previously. Be sure to
indicate where you took those classes: high school, COA, another
college. Feel free to mention any other information about your math
background that might be relevant, interesting, and/or amusing. This
can be as long or as short as you want.
Chapter 1.1:
- 2.
- 5.
- 9.
- 10. No explanations necessary.
- 17. No explanations necessary.
- 18.
- 22-24. No explanations necessary.
- 25. No explanations necessary.
- 27. No explanations necessary. (Be careful -- this one is
slightly trickey.)
- 29.
- 36.
Chapter 1.2:
- 1-4. No explanations necessary.
- 6.
- 11. No explanations necessary.
- 13.
- 15.
- 19.
- 32.
- 36.
Computer Problem:
Maple should be on the desktop of all PCs in the computer
labs. Double click on the icon and, after a little bit of whirring, a
maple icon will appear. Maple commands are fairly intuitive, but they
do take a little getting used to. Maple has some pretty good built-in
tutorials. A decent tutorial on plotting with maple can be found here;
ignore the stuff about putting titles on plots, though. For Maple
help from a real live human, talk to one of the teaching assistants or
me. I also
recommend looking at the page of Maple Help
that I've put together.
- Use Maple to plot f(x) = 4x^2, and then print out the plot.
(Hint, Maple doesn't understand 4x^2, but it does understand 4*x^2.)
- Use Maple to plot a cool function, and then print out the plot.
Be sure to say why you think the function is cool.
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