Monday, February 13, 2012

Feb 13 - Parametric Equations

We worked a couple problems from the worksheet prior to the quiz. I'll reiterate that ultimately, you will only be responsible for having the Taylor series for e^x, cos x, and sin x memorized. No others need to be memorized.

I spent most of class today _playing_ mathematics. I hope students who were in class got a good feel for how weird and abstract and cool pure mathematics can be and how new and different ways to represent concepts can provide deeper understanding. Unfortunately, I didn't have any real notes for class prepared so I don't have anything to scan in tonight. But I'll update it tomorrow.

We are starting parametric equations (with calculus) tomorrow. There is a short assignment tonight - just using your calculator to generate some graphs.

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