Maple Animation / Edition 1

by John F. Putz

Overview

There is nothing quite like that feeling you get when you see that look of recognition and enjoyment on your students' faces. Not just the strong ones, but everyone is nodding in agreement during your first explanation of the geometry of directional derivatives.

If you have incorporated animated demonstrations into your teaching, you know how effective they can be in eliciting this kind of response. You know the value of giving students vivid moving images to tie to concepts. But learning to make animations generally requires extensive searching through a vast computer algebra system for the pertinent functions. Maple Animation brings together virtually all of the functions and procedures useful in creating sophisticated animations using Maple 7, 8, or 9 and it presents them in a logical, accessible way. The accompanying downloadable resources provide all of the Maple code used in the book, including the code for more than 30 ready-to-use demonstrations.

From Newton's method to linear transformations, the complete animations included in this book allow you to use them straight out of the box. Careful explanations of the methods teach you how to implement your own creative ideas. Whether you are a novice or an experienced Maple user, Maple Animation provides the tools and skills to enhance your teaching and your students' enjoyment of the subject through animation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781584883784
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/14/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Getting Started. The Plot. Non-Cartesian Coordinates and Quadric Surfaces. Simple Animations. Building and Displaying a Frame Sequence. Loops and Derivatives. Adding Text to Animations. Plotting Vectors. Plotting Space Curves. Transformations and Morphing. Bibliography. Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Putz designed this book for teachers of precalculus and first and second year calculus to provide a large number of animations to be used to illustrate various concepts of calculus. The accompanying CD-ROM contains all the described examples coded for use in class directly, along with suggestions for how to use these examples... This book will be very useful to faculty. Recommended."
-CHOICE, 2004

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