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Path of Steepest Descent

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: Steven Pederson
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The following is an introductory student project for Maple which has been used by the author in Calculus III classes at Georgia Tech and Morehouse College. It is meant to be a group project for three students and possibly their first independent use of Maple. Students should be familiar with the geometric interpretation of the gradient vector of a function of two variables at a point. This project contains a short program to model and graph the path of steepest descent down a smooth hill. Students run and make small adjustments to the program, but do not write any programs.

Application Details

Publish Date: October 31, 2002
Created In: Maple 8
Language: English

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