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Calculus Projects The following are links to homework projects used in conjunction with Calculus by Smith and Minton. The section numbers correspond to 3rd edition, Early Transcendentals. Page numbers within the assignments refer to 2nd edition. Many of the assignments are for 1.5-hour labs. Others are homework assignments, which are handed out a week before they are due. I encourage students to ask questions both in class and out of class. Often, this is the best "quality time" I get with good students. General Use of the TI-89   Section 0.5 Data Analysis   Section 1.2 Knuckleballs   Section 1.3 Limit Conjectures   Section 1.5 Pupil Size   Section 2.3 Feynman Calculation   Section 2.3 Plane Landing   Section 2.8 Lagrange Multiplier   Section 2.8 Elliptic Curves   Section 3.1 Taylor Series   Section 3.1 Newton Fractals   Section 3.5 Genetics   Section 4.1 Antiderivatives   Section 4.5 AIDS Model   Section 4.7 Simpson's Rule   Section 5.1 Tendon Efficiency   Section 5.1 Area in Polar Coordinates   Section 5.5 Projectile Motion   Section 6.3 AM Radio   Section 6.5 Integration on the TI-89   Section 7.1 Compound Interest   Section 7.2 Space Shuttle   Section 8.2 Series on the TI-89   Section 8.2 Golden Mean Calculations   Section 8.3 Smallest Divergent Series   Section 8.4 Ambiguous Series   Section 8.6 Graphical Power Series   Section 8.7 Euler's Formula   Section 8.8 Weight Approximations   Section 8.9 Music Synthesizers   Section 8.9 Digital Processing   Section 9.1 Sonic Boom   Section 9.2 Scrambler   Section 9.5 Limit Cycle   Section 10.2 Vectors and Geometry   Section 10.3 Computer Graphics   Section 10.3 The Spinning Cube   Section 11.1 Graphs of Vector Functions   Section 11.5 Lagrange Points   Section 12.1 3D Graph Perspectives   Section 12.2 Contour Plots and Limits   Section 12.2 Graphical Limits   Section 12.3 Partial Derivatives   Section 12.6 Graphical Displays   Section 13.1 Monte Carlo Integration   Section 13.5 Baseball Bat Design   Section 14.1 Equipotentials   Section 14.3 Conservation of Energy