Maple animation. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John F. Putz.
• Other Names: Putz, John F
• Contents: Getting Started; The basic command line; A few words about Maple arithmetic; Comments; Assigning names to results; Built-in functions; Defining functions; Getting help and taking the tour; Saving, quitting, and returning to a saved worksheet; ; The Plot; The basics; Parametric forms; Plotting points and using the plots package; Storing and displaying plots; The plot thickens; Smoothing plots; Color; Scaling; Plotting with style; Adjusting your point of view; A limited view; Tailoring the axes; Toward leaner code; Context-sensitive menus and context bars; Further details; ; Non-Cartesian Coordinates and Quadric Surfaces; Polar coordinates; Cylindrical coordinates; Spherical coordinates and others; Quadrics quickly; Paraboloids; Elliptic cones; Ellipsoids; Hyperboloids; Quadric surfaces with axes other than the z-axis; ; Simple Animations; Animating a function of a single variable; Outline of an animation worksheet; Demonstrations: Secant lines and tangent lines; Using animated demonstrations in the classroom; Watching a curve being drawn; Demonstration: The squeeze theorem; Animating a function of two variables; Demonstrations: Hyperboloids; Demonstrations: Paraboloids; Demonstration: Level curves and contour plots; ; Building and Displaying a Frame Sequence; Sequences; The student and Student[Calculus1] packages; Displaying a sequence of frames; Building sequences with seq; Demonstrations: Rectangular approximation of the definite integral; Demonstration: Level surfaces; Moving points; Demonstrations: Projectiles; Demonstration: Cycloid; ; Loops and Derivatives; The for loop; The while loop; Derivatives; The line procedure; Demonstrations: Newton's method; Demonstrations: Solids of revolution; Demonstrations: Surfaces of revolution; ; Adding Text to Animations; Titles; The textplot and textplot3d procedures; Making text move; Demonstrations: Secant lines and tangent lines with labels; Including computed values in text; Demonstration: Rectangular approximation of the definite integral; with annotation; Constructing Taylor polynomials; Demonstrations: Taylor polynomials; Demonstrations: Experimenting with Taylor polynomials; ; Plotting Vectors; The two arrow procedures; The arrow procedure of the plots package; Dot product and cross product; The arrow options; Demonstration: The cross product vector; Demonstration: Velocity and acceleration vectors in two dimensions; Demonstration: Lines in space; ; Plotting Space Curves; The spacecurve procedure; Demonstration: Curves in space; Demonstration: Directional derivative and gradient vector; The tubeplot procedure; Demonstration: Velocity and acceleration vectors in three dimensions; ; Transformations and Morphing; The plottools package; The rotate procedure; The transform procedure; Matrix transformations; Morphing; Linear transformations; ; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 512/.0285/6696; Algebra -- Data processing; Computer animation; MATHEMATICS -- Algebra -- Abstract; Algebra -- Data processing; Computer animation; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0203503139; 9780203503133; 9781584883784; 1584883782
• Related ISBNs: 1584883782
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (page 207) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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