Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Denver, Colorado, March 17-20, 2011

Paper S006

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Teaching 3D Mathematical Modeling and Interpolation

Paul Bouthellier


University of Pittsburgh at Titusville

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we discuss how computer packages can be used to illustrate mathematical modeling in R3 and interpolation. Students are shown how to break a complex modeling problem into a series of simpler ones and how to change the position, scale, and rotation of objects over time using interpolation.

Keyword(s): modeling, numerical methods