Did you purchase Mathematica® hoping to use it to ace your Calculus course only you are not sure how? Are you an instructor hoping to assign Mathematics labs to your students either for a lab component or for self-study? If so, this text is for you. Exploring Calculus: Labs and Projects with Mathematica® is a hands-on lab manual for daily use in the classroom. Each lab includes exercises, theorems, and problems that guide your students on an exploration of linear algebra. The authors present a hands-on lab manual to be used in class every day or for additional learning outside of class, it is a guide to exploring the theory and application of differential and Integral calculus. These labs can be used individually to focus on a particular topic or in a sequence to follow a class syllabus. Each lab consists of an explanation of material with integrated exercises, Some labs are split into multiple sections. The exercise sections integrate problems, technology, Mathematica visualization, and Mathematics CDFs. This aids student discovery of the theory and applications of calculus in a meaningful and memorable way.
A project set follows each chapter. Projects in each chapter have been presented in order of difficulty. Many of these projects foreshadow future topics of study, such as partial derivatives, center of mass, Fourier series, and Laplace Transforms; students should be encouraged to use many of these projects as the basis for further undergraduate research. The text provides a great place for first-year calculus students to start with Mathematica. Features, Provides students and instructors with hands-on learning using Mathematica, Covers the core topics of calculus, including differential and integral calculus, Reveals how to use Mathematica for either in-class, lab, or independent study, Straightforward explanations with integrated exercises promote an Inquiry-based learning experience, Offers interesting problems for undergraduate-level research projects, Offers optional structure for different approaches to the course Book jacket.