Electronic Handouts
NOTE: Many of these handouts (those listed as "PDF" format ) require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to be viewed.
Any electronic handouts refered to in class are listed here.
| Date Posted | Format | Notes | |
| Course Syllabus | January 7 | An electronic version of the syllabus handed out on the first
day of class. |
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| MSUM Student Maple Download Page | January 20 | Webpage | This is the MSUM only website for retrieving a copy of Maple 12
for Windows of Mac. If you need the Linux version, see your instructor. |
| January 7 | In addition to
the PDF file describing the lab, you will need to download the
lab01supplement.mw (zip) Maple file. |
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Maple: Taylor Series and Complex Arithmetic |
January 7 | In addition to
the PDF file describing the lab, you will need to download the lab02supplement.mw (zip) Maple file. |
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| January 7 | In addition to
the PDF file describing the lab, you will need to download the lab03supplement.mw (zip) Maple file. |
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| January 7 | In addition to
the PDF file describing the lab, you will need to download the lab04supplement.mw (zip) Maple file. |
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| January 7 | In addition to
the PDF file describing the lab, you will need to download the lab05supplement.mw (zip) Maple file. |
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Maple: Orthonormal Functions (Legendre Polynomials) |
January 7 | In addition to
the PDF file describing the lab, you will need to download the lab06supplement.mw (zip) Maple file. |
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| January 7 | In addition to
the PDF file describing the lab, you will need to download the lab07supplement.mw (zip) Maple file. |
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| Hour 12 Lorentz Transform Notes | March 2 | These notes contain the correct Lorentz transform versus the lecture given on Monday, February 23. | |
| Linux Tutorial Website (PDF Version) |
February 26 | Website | For this lab (on March 4), we will ask you to do everything in Chapters
2 (except the section on setting your password) and 3 (except for
the section on partitioning). If you finish Chapters 2 and 3, look
at Sections 4.3 [Managing Processes] and 5.1 [Simple redirections]. |
| Mar. 30 | Web page | This is our first lab working with IDL. We will start by working
with IDLWAVE, an environement in which you use emacs as
a text editor to write your IDL code and then within emacs you
can trigger IDL to execute your code. Then you will run through an
IDL tutorial. |
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| April 13 | PDF(s) and IDL Procedure | This is the second lab working with IDL and in this one you end up reproducing some of the work you did in MAPLE in the Rotational Transforms lab. For this lab you should probably download not only the lab, but also the following:
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| Nyquist Frequency [SAMPLE SOLUTION] |
April 21 | This is the third lab working with IDL in which you will also
exploit the concept of the Nyquist frequency and what sampling a
function at different spacing will reveal (or fail to reveal) about
the function. |
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| Fourier Transforms in IDL [SAMPLE SOLUTION] |
April 29 | This is a fourth lab exploiting the power of IDL. You will need to download the supplement files in addition to the lab. Lab12Supplement.zip: Compressed version of supplement files. |
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| Interactive Java Applet for Convolution | May 6 | Web Page (and Java Applet) | This page contains a nice Java Applet which lets you get a feel for what is going on when you convolve a function. |
| Convolutions [SAMPLE SOLUTION] |
May 6 | This is a fifth lab exploiting the power
of IDL. You will need to download the supplement files in addition
to the lab. Lab13Supplement.zip: Compressed version of supplement files. |
Exam Materials
After each exam, we will post both an answer key (annotated for any especially difficult problems) on the exam. You need Adobe Acrobat to read these answers.
| Exam (Date) | Study Guide | Answer Key |
| Mid-Term Exam (Wed., March 11, 3pm - 5pm) |
Midterm Study Guide | Sample Answer Key |
| Final Exam (Monday, May 9, 9 - 11 am) |
Final Exam Study Guide | Sample Answer Key |