Engineering Math Spring 2009

2250 Midterm and Final Exams

2250 Syllabus, Gradesheet, Reports

1. Gustafson's 2250 gradesheet and problem list S2009. gradesheet ( 47K pdf)
2. Gustafson's 2250 syllabus S2009. syllabus (134K pdf)
3. 2250 format suggestions for reports How to improve your written work. Writing reports. ( 25K pdf)
4. How to do maple graphics using a modem or dsl Low speed internet and maple graphics (3.8K txt)

Maple Tutorials and Maplesoft offer

1. Maplesoft Quick Reference Cards Click Here
2. Douglas Meade's Quick Reference Card for Maple 12 Click Here
3. A rookie maple tutorial for the impatient from Indiana University Click Here
4. Angie Gardiner tutorial source. Save to local disk and launch it in maple. Save file (.mws) [usually right click]
5. Details for maple 12 under unix, windows, OS/X How to use maple 12 (2k text)
6. Offer from Waterloo Maple to buy a copy of maple 12 for your OS/X, Linux or MS-Windows home computer or laptop [$50.00].
   Maple 12 Offer S2009 Click here

    * Simple Harmonic Oscillator - with and without damping, transfer of energy between kinetic and potential forms
    * Damped Harmonic Oscillator - underdamped, overdamped, and critically damped
    * Forced Harmonic Oscillator - transient and steady state response to a force applied to the mass
    * The Simple Pendulum - comparing the linear approximation (small angle) with a real pendulum 
    * Coupled Oscillators - energy transfer between two mass-spring systems coupled together
    * Dynamic Absorbers - J.P. Den Hartog's classical undamped tuned dynamic absorber
    * Tacoma Narrows Bridge  - (0.668 MB mpeg movie) - when engineers don't account for resonance when designing structures

        Grant B. Gustafson
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        Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090