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WORK DUE at the beginning of class
unless otherwise noted!
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| 4 May - Mon |
Final Project from 12-2:30.
Brachistone: David and Dustin
Designing the Cover of a Baseball: Cayce and Robby
GUI EFG: Jason and Jeremy
A Look at Geometric Surfaces Fixed to a Rotational Axis In a Flow Field:
Casey and Shiloh
Mathematical Background of General Relativity: Jason and Jason
Java version of the mean and gaussian curvature worksheet: Bish
Jerk etc: Mark and Matthew
Wormholes: Ariana and Rebecca
Anytime from Apr 23-May 6, take a try of the ASULearn Anonymous
Advice for Next Semester survey, which counts as participation credit. I can see whether you have completed the survey or not, in order to give you participation credit, but the responses are anonymously reported to me in class summary form.
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| 28 Apr - Tues |
Prepare to present your final
project abstract orally in class.
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| 21 Apr - Tues |
Work on the choice of a final project topic.
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| 16 Apr - Thur |
Project 6 metric form and relativity
presentation
Alcubierre metric: Jason, Jeremy, Mark, and Matthew
Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates: David, Dustin and Robbie
Kerr metric: Casey and Shiloh
Schwartzschild metric: Jason and Jason
Wormhole metric: Ariana, Bish, Cayce, and Rebecca
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| 7 Apr - Tues |
Test 2 on Surfaces. study suggestions
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| 6 Apr - Mon |
Rebecca has booked room 322 at 7pm in Belk Library Monday night for
a study session.
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| 2 Apr - Thur |
Study for test 1 and write down any questions you have.
Begin working on Project 6.
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| 31 Mar - Tues |
Read through the final project criteria under the final exam due date
and begin thinking about a topic.
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| 26 Mar - Thur |
Project 5: Prepare a short presentation for your surface:
1) Parametrization that can be used for the Maple worksheet
Gauss Curvature and Mean Curvature
2) Project or sketch a picture of the surface
3) Physically interesting features
4) Historical significance and/or significance in current research or
applications
5) Show Maple or other work for the Gauss curvature
6) Discuss instrinsic Gauss curvature arguments (positive, negative,
or zero)
7) Show Maple or other work to show if the mean curvature is 0 or not.
8) If you used any references other than our text, then give proper
credit to them.
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| 24 Mar - Tues |
Read Project 4 Solutions on ASULearn.
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| 17 Mar - Tues |
Project 4 is due.
Maple file on geodesic and normal curvatures:
Adapted from David Henderson.
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| 5 Mar - Thur |
Read Project 3 Solutions on ASULearn.
Begin working on Project 4.
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| 3 Mar - Tues |
Construct an annular hyperbolic plane
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| 26 Feb - Thur |
Project 3
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| 24 Feb - Tues |
Correctly complete all of the test 1 demonstrations for which
you did not score a 15/15 on for a possible
+2 on your test. Turn in the original test
too.
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| 12 Feb - Thur |
Test 1 on curves study suggestions
Philip is organizing a study group in room 210 of the library
from 6pm to 2am.
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| 10 Feb - Tues |
Study for test 1
and write down any questions you have.
Read project 2 solutions on ASULearn.
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| 5 Feb - Thur |
Project 2
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| 3 Feb - Tues |
Skim through solutions to Project 1 on ASULearn.
Read
Watching
Flies Fly: Kappatau Space Curves by Rudy Rucker
Work on Project 2
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| 29 Jan - Thur |
Find as many people as you can related to the creation of the Frenet
formulas and the years of their contributions, including Bartels, Frenet,
Pagani, and Serret.
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| 27 Jan - Tues |
Project 1
Maple Applet spacecurve.mw that calculates the
Velocity, Acceleration, Jerk, Speed, ArcLength, Curvature, and Torsion
Maple Applet TNBapplet.mw
that animates the Frenet Frame.
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| 22 Jan - Thur |
Begin working on project 1.
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| 20 Jan - Tues |
Read 1.1 and write down any questions you have. Be prepared to share
something from the reading.
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| 15 Jan - Thur |
Search google for Dr. Sarah, click on her page, and click on the MAT 4140
link and then the Syllabus link.
Write down any questions you have - the
university considers this a binding contract between us.
Complete the Calc 3 Review of Curves.
I am happy to help in office hours. Dr. Klima sells books out of his office
for math club, if you need a calc 3 text, or you may wish to review
concepts via web pages such as:
http://math.etsu.edu/Multicalc/
or
http://omega.albany.edu:8008/calc3/toc.html
Purchase the textbook Differential Geometry and Its Applications
The Mathematical Association of America Edition in 2007
Classroom Resource Materials
John Oprea
469 pp., hardbound, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-88385-748-9
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