Math 4530-1
Curves and Surfaces
Spring term, 2002

Maple Projects
and Handouts

Send e-mail to : Professor Korevaar

Links:
4530 homework page 
4530 home 
Department of Mathematics




Downloads
   The University maintains a great page with links to downloadable software, including Adobe Acrobat Reader (near the bottom of their page), which is free and lets you view the .pdf files below on your home computer. On the Math machines, acrobat is activated automatically if you go to a .pdf file. The University page also has links to free telnet and ftp software so you can access Math and University servers from home. Have a look at this page, you might find something else you need.
www.utah.edu/uwebresources/software.html

Handouts and procedures: Most recent listed first. Files ending in ".mws" are Maple worksheets. You can download them and then open them from Maple. Files ending in ".pdf" are in portable document format, suitable for viewing from your browser or printing out. They require Adobe Acrobat reader. In the unlikely event your computer doesn't already have this installed, go the the University page above and download a free copy.

Monday March 4: Computing mean curvature, Gauss curvature, matrices for the first and second fundamental forms and for the shape operator, etc.
    surfacecurvatures.mws  
    surfacecurvatures.pdf  

Friday January 25: The first file is an introduction to Maple and our computer lab. This was written for Math 2270 students, but if you ignore the linear algebra at the end it will work for you too.
    2270tut.mws  
    2270tut.pdf  
    surfaces.mws   Some surface plots to play with.
    surfaces.pdf  

Wednesday January 23:
    curtor.mws   Procedure for finding curvature and torsion, for curves which may not be parameterized by arclength.
    curtor.pdf  

Friday January 18:
    planecurve.mws   Procedure for finding curves with prescribed planar curvature.
    planecurve.pdf  

Wednesday January 16:
    frenet.mws   Procedure for solving Frenet Equations.
    frenet.pdf