Hong-Jian's Tips on Calculus

 

 

 

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This is the area where you may find something arisen from working on the problems in Calculus. Now it is in the beginning stage. I hope this will grow and will offer Calculus learning students certain help outside the classroom. Students are the most important for making this place to grow and to become a spot where the Calculus learning students would find helpful. Please send your feedback and suggestions to me at hjlai@math.wvu.edu and I will appreciate your comments very much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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·        Operations involving 3D vectors

·        Compute the angle between two vectors

·        Compute component of a vector a along a vector b

 

 

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·        Write the equation of a sphere

·        Compute the center and the radius of a sphere

·        Determine if two vectors are parallel or perpendicular

 

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·        Determine if three points are coline

·        Compute the direction cosines of a vector

·        Verify the triangle inequality

 

 

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·        Compute the  cross (vector) product of two vectors

·        Find unit vectors perpendicular to two given vectors

·        Compute areas

·        Compute volumes

 

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·        Compute the equations of a line in space

 

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·        Determine the relationship of two lines

 

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·        Write the equation of a plane

 

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·        Determine the relationship of a line and a plane

·        Find the angle between two planes

 

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·        Write equations of a line as intersections of two planes

 

 

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·        Determine the relationship of a line and a plane (in parametric equations)

·        Determine the relationship of two planes (in parametric equations)

 

 

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·        Show a parametric curve is lying on a surface

·        Evaluate vector functions

·        Find velocity and acceleration vectors

·        Compute the integrals of vector functions

 

 

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·        Compute the derivative of vector functions

·        Find position vectors

·        Show facts on vectors

 

 

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·        Compute the arc length of curves

·        Compute the curvature of a curve

·        Search the place with maximum curvature

 

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·        Compute unit tangent and unit normalvectors, tangential and normal components

 

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·        Write an equation for the surface generated by revolving a plane curve around an axis

 

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·        Determine the projection of the intersection curve of two surfaces

 

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·        Convert from one coordinate system to another

 

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·        Convert equations from one coordinate system to another, I

 

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·        Convert equations from one coordinate system to another, II

 

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·        Determine the largest possible domain of a function

 

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·        Use limit laws to evaluate limits

·        Determine if the limit does not exist

 

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·        Compute partial derivatives

·        Find an equation of the tangent plane

 

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·        Find the points with horizontal tangent planes

·        Find the lowest or highest point of surfaces

 

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·        Find the maximum and minimum values of f(x,y) over a region R

 

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·        Compute partial derivatives with Chain Rule

 

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·        Compute the Gradient Vector

·        Compute the directional derivative of a function

 

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·        Find the maximum directional derivatives of a function at a given point

·        Find tangent planes with normal gradient vector

 

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·        Find and classify critical points

 

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·        Compute the (double integral) Riemann sum

·        Evaluate double integrals over rectangular regions

 

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·        Evaluate double integrals over general regions (and change order of integration)

 

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·        Compute area and volume by evaluating double integrals

 

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·        Compute double integrals in polar coordinates

 

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·        Compute iterated triple integrals

 

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·        Compute integrals in cylindrical coordinates

 

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·        Compute integrals in spherical coordinates

 

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·        Compute the mass and the centroid and the moments of a solid

 

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·        Compute the line integrals

 

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·        Compute the line integrals in conservative fields and search for potential functions

 

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·        Compute integrals using Green's Theorem

 

 

 

 

 

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