Homework 1



Homework 1: Due Friday 14 January, 2005

For many of the problems for which I state that no explanation is necessary, it still might be a good idea to show your work and/or explain your reasoning.


Autobiography: Write a brief paragraph (or send me an email) describing the math classes you've taken previously. Be sure to indicate where you took those classes: high school, COA, another college. Feel free to mention any other information about your math background that might be relevant, interesting, and/or amusing. This can be as long or as short as you want.

Chapter 1.1:

  1. 2.
  2. 5.
  3. 9.
  4. 10. No explanations necessary.
  5. 17. No explanations necessary.
  6. 18.
  7. 22-24. No explanations necessary.
  8. 25. No explanations necessary.
  9. 27. No explanations necessary. (Be careful -- this one is slightly trickey.)
  10. 29.
  11. 36.

Chapter 1.2:

  1. 1-4. No explanations necessary.
  2. 6.
  3. 11. No explanations necessary.
  4. 13.
  5. 15.
  6. 19.
  7. 32.
  8. 36.

Computer Problem: Maple should be on the desktop of all PCs in the computer labs. Double click on the icon and, after a little bit of whirring, a maple icon will appear. Maple commands are fairly intuitive, but they do take a little getting used to. Maple has some pretty good built-in tutorials. A decent tutorial on plotting with maple can be found here; ignore the stuff about putting titles on plots, though. For Maple help from a real live human, talk to one of the teaching assistants or me. I also recommend looking at the page of Maple Help that I've put together.

  1. Use Maple to plot f(x) = 4x^2, and then print out the plot. (Hint, Maple doesn't understand 4x^2, but it does understand 4*x^2.)
  2. Use Maple to plot a cool function, and then print out the plot. Be sure to say why you think the function is cool.


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