CALCULUS 2 MAPLETS

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Here are a number of interactive tools which may be of use to you in studying calculus 2. You will need an up-to-date version of java for these to run. It can be downloaded for free from

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/1.4.2_03/index.html,

where you should click on the JRE download, supplying you with a java runtime environment. You will be able to either download the entire JRE with installer, or download the installer which will access the requisite files remotely. If you have difficulties with any of these maplets, please contact

jvelling@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

	Clicking on the green buttons will connect you to a server running Maple. This will work anywhere with net access, but will tend to run rather slowly.
	Clicking on the yellow buttons will run the maplets directly on your machine. But you need to be at a computer running Maple.

MathML Viewer			This maplet allows you to enter strings of symbols and see how they appear to Maple. Thus, for example, “2x” and “2*x” are treated differently. The first sees “2x” as a single entity – much like we think of the word “it”. This is a single entity represented by a symbol having two letters. The other, “2*x” sees that 2 multiplies the expression “x”. If you are uncertain as to how to enter something, it can always be tested here.
Partial Fractions Decompositions			This maplet allows you to practice decomposing various rational functions into their partial fractions representation. It also performs this decomposition on request.