MA1024   CALCULUS IV  A03 A

LABS

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Distribution/Hand-in Policy

This term, there will be 4 labs. All lab reports will be due at the end of the lab period and should be turned in before you leave the lab. Lab reports are on-time if they are handed in before the close of business on the day of the lab. Late lab reports can be turned in during the week following the lab until close of business on Friday, but there will be a five-point penalty assessed for late submission. Hence the highest possible score for a Lab submitted late is twenty points. After close of business on that Friday, late labs will not be accepted.

Lab Reports

Each student should write her/his report independently. You are welcome to speak with others to discuss Maple commands and ideas for how to solve problems, but you should not transfer maple worksheet, lab write-ups, etc. You are welcome to prepare your entire report on a Maple worksheet, or you may type portions outside of Maple, but except for occasional vectors or special symbols, reports should not be hand-written. You are strongly encouraged to save paper by printing out your worksheet with two pages per physical page, appending the -N2 flag to your lpr -Pmath command. So the exact command is lpr -N2 -Pmath. Each lab report should consist of two parts:

I.Title
At the top of the report, please give the title of the lab, the lab number, the date, your name, and your section number.

II. Answers to Exercises, including computer commands, plots, etc.
All Maple commands used to solve the exercises should be included. Problem numbers should be included in this section to indicate which commands were used for which problems. You are not required to restate the question, or write problem summaries. On the other hand, you are expected to state your answer clearly and concisely and to write in words whatever is needed to understand why what you are computing or plotting with Maple addresses the question at hand. Equations, functions or plots that are needed for the solutions should be clearly labeled. One or two well-chosen sentences at the begin or end of your computations or plots may help greatly to clarify your answers. Finally, you are not required to use Maple to solve an exercise unless the statement of the question specifically calls for Maple. In many cases, however, it would be silly to try to solve an exercise without the aid of a computer (Try drawing an accurate 3-D plot by hand).

Grading of the Lab Reports

Each lab will be worth 25 points. The reports will be graded by the PLAs, and the grading will be reviewed by the instructor. The major portion of your grade will be determined by the correctness of your mathematical work. Your grade will suffer, however, if you frequently misspell words, and/or make significant grammatical errors.

Lab 1: Partial Derivatives and Tangent Planes

Lab 2: Vectors

Lab 3: Vector Functions

Lab 4: MultiVariable Integration

Written by: JDF (E-Mail: bach@wpi.edu)
Last modified: Monday, 18 August 2003
Copyright 2003, Joseph D. Fehribach