Newton and Laplace

Engineering Math Fall 2010

2250 7:30am and 12:25pm Fall 2010
Updated: Thursday December 09: 19:09PM, 2010
Today: Thursday October 23: 20:23PM, 2025

2250 Announcements

  • Special final exam review, Saturday 11 December in LCB 219 from 1pm to 3pm.
    Final exam study guide F2010 (09 Dec 2010, 8.3K txt)
  • Final exam: 2250-2 [7:30] on Wed 15 Dec in WEB 103 at 7:30am ending 10:00am.
  • Final exam: 2250-4 [12:25pm] on Fri 17 Dec in JWB 335 at 10:15am ending 12:30pm.
  • Exceptions for the final exam: Obtain an agreement in advance of the exam date. University rules require you to attend the final exam at the scheduled time [scheduled by the university, not me]. Exceptions are possible, but follow strict university rules. You may always take the exam early, with prior agreement.
  • Practice problems for Exam 3
    Click here for F2010 exam 3 practice problems 3,4,5 with answers
  • The 7:30am class 2250-2 meets daily in WEB103, ending 8:20am.
  • The 12:25pm class 2250-4 meets Tue-Thu in JWB 335, ending 2:10pm, and also Monday and Wednesday in JWB 335 from 12:55pm to 1:45pm.

    2250 Due Dates, Problem Notes, Reading, Maple Projects and Extra Credit

    1. 2250 Changes in due dates for submitted work
      Updated due dates 7:30am (08 Dec 2010, 14K html)     Updated due dates 12:25pm (08 Dec 2010, 14K html)
    2. 2250 Problem Notes. Extra info on dailies. Problem notes and FAQ
    3. 2250 Reading Schedule and Topics Reading 7:30am     Reading 12:25pm
    4. 2250 Reading Schedule with Links to Slides and Manuscripts
      Reading schedule 7:30am     Reading schedule 12:25pm
    5. 2250 maple labs and maple extra credit. Maple Projects
    6. 2250 Extra Credit. Cancel zeros and fifty-fives! Extra credit math/maple problems

    2250 Lecture Notes, Slides and References

    1. Lectures 7:30am What happened in the 7:30am class? Slide links, lecture material and references.
    2. Lectures 12:25pm What happened in the 12:25pm class? Slide links, lecture material and references.
    3. Notebook Computer click here Notebook computer lecture slides and documents [current]
    4. Historical References. Manuscripts Click here. Slides Click here.
      Appearing here are historical links to classroom pdf manuscripts, slides, textbook problem solutions, examples, solution outlines and maple code. See the preceding link for current slides and manuscripts.

    2250 Midterm and Final Exams

    Click here for all F2010 exam materials, including samples, old exam keys with solutions, keys to this semester's exams, and related study guides for exams.

    2250 Syllabus, Gradesheet, Reports

    1. Gustafson's 2250-2 7:30am gradesheet and problem list F2010. gradesheet ( 21 Aug 2010, 81K pdf)
    2. Gustafson's 2250-2 7:30am syllabus F2010. syllabus ( 23 Aug 2010, 151K pdf)
    3. Gustafson's 2250-2 7:30am Roster and Majors F2010. Roster ( 06 Sep 2010, 22K pdf)
    4. Gustafson's 2250-4 12:25pm gradesheet and problem list F2010. gradesheet ( 24 Aug 2010, 75K pdf)
    5. Gustafson's 2250-4 12:25pm syllabus F2010. syllabus ( 23 Aug 2010, 151K pdf)
    6. Gustafson's 2250-4 12:25pm Roster and Majors F2010. Roster ( 06 Sep 2010, 22K pdf)
    7. 2250 format suggestions for reports How to improve your written work. Writing reports. ( 01 Jan 2010, 42K pdf)

    Maple Tutorials and Maplesoft offer

    1. Maplesoft Quick Reference Cards Click Here
    2. Douglas Meade's Quick Reference Card for Maple 12 Click Here
    3. A Matlab cheat sheet from Strang's linear algebra course at MIT One-page sheet of matlab commands (pdf)
    4. A rookie maple tutorial for the impatient from Indiana University Click Here
    5. Angie Gardiner tutorial source. Save to local disk and launch it in maple. Save file ( 19 Jan 2009, 139K mws) [usually right click]
    6. Details for maple 12 under unix, windows, OS/X How to use maple 12 ( 06 Jan 2010, 2.0K txt)
    7. How to do maple graphics using a modem or dsl Low speed internet and maple graphics ( 06 Jan 2010, 4.0K txt)
    8. Maple 14 Offer F2010 Click here

    OLD Engineering Math Local Documents 1998-2010

    1. Link to Spring 2010 Eng Math documents Click here
    2. Link to Fall 2009 Eng Math documents Click here
    3. Link to Spring 2009 Eng Math documents Click here
    4. Link to Fall 2008 Eng Math documents Click here
    5. Link to Spring 2008 Eng Math documents Click here
    6. Link to Fall 2007 Eng Math documents Click here
    7. Link to Spring 2007 Eng Math documents Click here
    8. Link to Fall 2006 Eng Math documents Click here
    9. Link to Spring 2006 Eng Math documents Click here
    10. Link to Fall 2005 Eng Math documents Click here
    11. Link to Spring 2005 Eng Math documents Click here
    12. Link to Fall 2004 Eng Math documents Click here
    13. Link to Spring 2004 Eng Math documents Click here
    14. Link to Fall 2003 Eng Math documents Click here
    15. Link to 1995 to Spring 2003 Eng Math documents Click Here

    FLASH Animations of applications

  • The 85 physics animations in the link below are Copyright 2002 David M. Harrison, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto.
    Harrison's physics animations
    A high percentage of the areas covered in the 85 animations touch the subject matter of this course: Chaos, Classical Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Micrometer Caliper, Miscellaneous, Nuclear, Optics, Oscilloscope, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Sound Waves, Vectors, Waves.
  • The physics animations in the link below are Copyright 2002 Dan Russell, Dept. of Physics, Kettering Univ. See in particular the movies and animations for harmonic motion, forced oscillations and resonance.
    Dan Russell's physics animations 
        * Simple Harmonic Oscillator - with and without damping, transfer of energy between kinetic and potential forms
    * Damped Harmonic Oscillator - underdamped, overdamped, and critically damped
    * Forced Harmonic Oscillator - transient and steady state response to a force applied to the mass
    * The Simple Pendulum - comparing the linear approximation (small angle) with a real pendulum
    * Coupled Oscillators - energy transfer between two mass-spring systems coupled together
    * Dynamic Absorbers - J.P. Den Hartog's classical undamped tuned dynamic absorber
    * Tacoma Narrows Bridge  - (0.668 MB mpeg movie) - when engineers don't account for resonance when designing structures
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