Project I    (Due:   Oct. 17)

Select one of the following projects.  Write a complete and coherent solution, preferably typewritten and using appropriate diagrams.  Your grade will depend upon your choice of project, your written presentation, and the amount of effort that you invested in the project.  If you wish to propose your own topic, do not hesitate to do so.  But such topics must be approved at least one week before the due date.  You are encouraged to use Maple as a tool whenever appropriate.

page 638 /  Dot Product in Genetics

page 699 /  Heat Equation

page 699 / Matching Birthdays

page 732 / Hockey and Entropy

page 733 / Fitting a Line to Data Using Least Squares
 

Project II  (Due:  Nov. 30)

One option is to explore the change of variable theorem and the meaning of the Jacobian, as presented in section 16.7.
Other options include:

page 781 / A Connection Between e and p

page 781 / Average Distance Walked to an Airport Gate

page 823 / Shooting a Basketball

page 823 / Kepler's Second Law

page 824 / Flux Diagrams

page 861 / Conservation of Energy

page 862 / Ampere's Law

page 884 / Gauss' Law Applied to a Charged Wire and a Charged Sheet

page 885 / Flux Across a Cylinder Due to a Point Charge:  Obtaining Gauss' Law from Coulomb's Law