Technology Enhancement for Calculus

Mathematica Resources


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  2. The official instruction manual "The Mathematica Book" is available online.
  3. Introductory tutorials in notebook form are also available for download.

Chapter IV - Differentiation

  1. Computing Derivatives - Derive.nb

Chapter V - Optimization

  1. Finding the Critical Points - CriticalPoints.nb
    This notebook also contains a discussion of Snell's Law.

Chapter VII - Integration

  1. Finding Anti-Derivatives - Integration.nb
  2. Numerical Integration - NumIntegral.nb
  3. The Error in Numerical Integration - ErrorIntegral.nb
  4. The Theory of Integral Approximation Errors - ErrorIntegral2.nb
  5. Improper Integrals - ImproperIntegrals.nb

Chapter IX - Approximations and Series

  1. Computing and Graphing Taylor Polynomials - TaylorPolys.nb
  2. Error Approximations for Taylor Polynomials - ErrorTaylorPolys.nb

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