Summary Additions:

• Due Wednesday 9/9:
  • Section 1.1 62
• We will meet in TETC 116b on Friday 9/4. Please go here for the lab we will work on.
• Due Monday 9/14:
  • The new notebook with the plots you created as part of the lab the first Friday.
• Due Monday 10/26
  • Work through this Mathematica notebook and complete the instructions at the end.Here is my mathematica file for solutions. And in pdf
• Due Monday 11/9:
  • GO TO Mathematica and author the following
    surd[n_,x_]:=If[Mod[n,2]==0,x^(1/n),Piecewise[{{x^(1/n), x>=0},{-(-x)^(1/n), x<0}}]]
    f[x_,a_,b_]:=surd[3,(x+2)^a] (x-1)^b
    Plot[f[x,2,3],{x,-2.5,1.5}]
    Note: remember surd from our first Mathematica lab.
    Once you have authored the above, you can just change the values for a and b in the plot statement to plot other functions. Use different combinations of the values 1, 2, and 3 for a and b. Discuss the effect the exponent has on the graph. Remember that the exponents for the function g are a/3 and b. Use terms like horizontal and vertical tangents, turning point or extrema, inflection point, and passes through the x axis.
  • This notebook already has the commands above, feel free to use this as a starting point.
  • Here is my solution.
  • For Monday 12/7 make sure you play with this notebook.
  • Here are some extra Max-Min problems for Friday's class.

Mathematica

Although Mathematica is available in the computer labs the Salisbury University site license for Mathematica allows you to install the student version on your home computers. To download your free home-use copy go to the following link: Register (by clicking on create account) here and watch the video. You MUST use an SU e-mail address! For instructions please visit this site
If you are not familiar with Mathematica you may make use of the tours and demos that come with it or you may make use of Getting Started with Mathematica and work through it.
For further help with Mathematica, Dr. Spickler has assembled and created a wealth of material available from his site. And More...
As has Dr. Keough.
Then there are the screencasts from Wolfram or, if you’re willing to shop around, look at the higher level of this link and then scan the videos either within the “Getting Started With Mathematica” channel (available in the Main Channels listed directly on the Overview page) or the Mathematica channel (available after selecting the Channels tab). Dr Keough has jumped on the video train himself, with these experiments of creating screencasts landing here feel free to subscribe, like, and pass around! more to come possibly....