Electronic Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28-31, 2004

Paper S036

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-43792-6, Copyright (C) 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Multiple Integration - Visualization and Animation Using Maple

Bill Blyth


Department of Mathematics
RMIT University
School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences
Melbourne, VIC 3000
Australia


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ABSTRACT

MAPLE is used in a 'MAPLE immersion' mode for all teaching, computation and assessment. Visualization is used to introduce line integrals in 2D as area of a wall built above a path; slicing diagrams for double (and triple) integration; and volume under a surface as volume of a 'shed'.

Keyword(s): Maple, calculus, applications