Friday, July 1, 2011

Graphs of Taylor Polynomials

Use this demonstration from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project to explore Taylor polynomial approximations to a variety of functions. (To interact with it online you'll need to download and install Wolfram's free CDF Player.)

Polar and Rectangular Coordinates

Use this demonstration from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project to explore the relationship between polar and rectangular coordinates. (To interact with it online you'll need to download and install Wolfram's free CDF Player.)

Max-Min Demonstrations from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project

These are some of the demonstrations from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project that illustrate classic Calculus I optimization problems. To interact with these online you'll need to download and install Wolfram's free CDF Player.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Introduction to Rectilinear Motion

Watch a particle moving along a line and figure out how to draw the corresponding position vs. time and velocity vs. time graphs. It is possible to change the position function by typing "s(x) = " followed by whatever function you'd like in the input line. (You can also access this applet on GeoGebraTube.)



Download the Geogebra file which is the basis for this applet

Monday, March 21, 2011

Calculus Grapher

A nice applet from the PhET project at the University of Colorado enabling you to quickly "sketch" a graph of a particular shape and to see graphs of its derivative and integral.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

SticiGui

There are lots of applets embedded in the relevant locations in this full-length interactive statistics text written by Professor Philip Stark at UC Berkeley.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Basic Descriptive Statistics

This applet from the UK's National STEM Centre allows you to input a mini frequency distribution and then look at various representations of it.