Modelling with calculus

Web Links

Links to websites you may find useful for this FSMQ are given below. The addresses and content of websites sometimes change. If you have any problems please contact June Haighton.

Applied Calculus
On-line calculus tutorials and problems to solve
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/RealWorld/tccalcp.html

Calculus Modeling - An Interactive Approach
On-line calculus textbook that uses applets to illustrate the material and to provide essential tools. Includes lots of examples, quizzes and exercises.
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~klbooksite

Excel Tutorials (Clemson University)
includes useful tutorials on the use of Excel in many areas of mathematics
http://phoenix.phys.clemson.edu/tutorials/excel/index.html

International Education Software
Interactive illustrations of calculus topics
http://www.ies.co.jp/math/products/calc/menu.html

Maths Online
Interactive multimedia learning units including interactive tests (most of these involve Java applets). Those most useful for algebra are Co-ordinate Systems. Variables, terms formulae and identities, Equations and Functions.
http://www.univie.ac.at/future.media/moe/galerie.html

Surfing derivatives
Introduction to derivatives
http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/calc/doukan/doukan.html

University of Minnesota
In Course Materials you will find Calculus Initiative including: Numerical Integration Beams, Bending and Boundary conditions Maths associated with centroids, moments of inertia, models of deflection in beams Modeling Population Growth Differential equations that model population growth Rainbow Lab Examines mathematical models of light passing through a water droplet.
http://www.geom.umn.edu

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Select Visual Calculus for the following modules: Pre-Calculus, Limits and Continuity, Derivatives, Applications of Differentiation, Integration, Applications of Integration, Sequences and Series. Each contains a large number of resources, some including animations.
http://archives.math.utk.edu

Utah State University
Useful for showing the relationship between the graphs of a function and its first and second derivative.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_109_g_4_t_2.html?open=activities