Thursday, June 26, 2014

LAC2014: Physics and Calculus with the TI-89

LAC2014:

Physics and Calculus with the TI-89

This year's Life After Calculus 2014 (LAC2014) focused on applications of Calculus to Physics. What's nice about these applications is that they serve as a brief introduction to Calculus III, IV and V!

Since we are switching to the TI-nSpire next year, we also demonstrated the use of the TI-89, aka Hal, for the last time whenever possible. It's about time we upgraded our Graphing Calculator in AP Calculus BC class. I think we've been using the TI-89 for over 20 years. So, let this be Hal's Swan Song!

Next year, LAC2015 will be similar to this but we will showcase the TI-nSpire instead! Can you guess what LAC2016 will be like? Yes, you guessed it! We'll redo this project one more time showcasing SAGE!

What follows is a series of ScreenCasts summarizing what we did. Each ScreenCast has the handout and SmartNotes used in class as attachments to the YouTube description.