An online course in scientific document preparation

Introduction and Syllabus (Important dates)

Presentation (given at Ohio Section MAA)

Course Video Contents

Lesson 1: The Basics of Scientific Workplace -- (pdf file)

1. Toolbars
2. Special Characters
3. Tables
4. The Basics of Entering Mathematics
5. Plotting
6. Adding functions to plots

Project 1 (Due: Sept. 1)

Comments Video 1

Lesson 2: The Basics of Scientific Workplace II -- (pdf file)

a. An introduction to environments

b. More on displayed equations

Project 2 (Due Sept. 3)

Comments Video 2

Lesson 3: Screen and Document Appearance, More on Graphing – (pdf file)

a. Tag Appearance

b. Marginal Cost

c. Plotting squares and triangles

Project 3 (Due Sept. 8)

Review 1 (pdf file only) (Due Sept. 10)

Comments Video 3

Lesson 4: Fragments, Definitions, Automatic Substitution, and Math Names – (pdf file)

Project 4 (Due Sept. 13)

Comments Video 4

Lesson 5: Matrices and References – (pdf file)

a. Determinants of 2×2 matrices

b. Eigenvalues of 2×2 matrices

Project 5 (Due Sept. 15)

Comments Video 5

Lesson 6: More Calculations – (pdf file)

a. Including details in a calculation

b. Solving equations

c. Combining and expanding expressions

d. Changing the number of digits

1. in the display

2. in the calculation

e. Simplification

f. Ordinary differential equations

Project 6 (Due Sept. 20)

Review 2 (pdf file only) (Due Sept. 22)

Lesson 7: Aids to computing and navigation and front matter – (pdf file)

a. Interpreting Expressions

b. Compute Menu and Toolbar

c. Problems

d. List of Figures

Project 7 (Due Sept. 24)

Lesson 8: Keys and references; understanding floats – (pdf file)

a. Keys and references

a. Floats

Project 8 (Due Sept. 28)

Comments Video 8

Lesson 9: Latex packages (style files) – (pdf file)

Lesson 9b

Project 9 (Due Oct. 6)

Comments Video 9 (Moore file)

Review 3 (pdf file only) (Due Oct. 27)

Lesson 10: Graphs and citations – (pdf file)

Project 10 (Due Oct. 8)

Comments Video 10

Lesson 11: Horizontal and vertical spacing

No project for this lesson

Lesson 12: Matrices I – (pdf file)

Definition of a matrix

Generating a matrix using SWP

Project 12 (Due Oct. 11)

Comments Video 12

Lesson 13: Matrices II – (pdf file)

Adding rows and columns

Transposition and trace

Project 13 (Due Oct. 13)

Lesson 14: Matrices III – (pdf file)

Reshape command

Matrix addition

Scalar multiplication

Vector inner product

Project 14 (Due Oct. 18)

Comments Video 14

Lesson 15: Matrices IV – (pdf file)

Multiplication

Transposition

Project 15 (Due Oct. 20)

Comments Video 15

Lesson 16: Identities and determinants – (pdf file)

Project 16 (Due Oct. 29)

Lesson 17: Invertible matrices – (pdf file)

Project 17 (Due Nov. 3)

Comments Video 17

Review 4 (pdf file only) (Due Nov. 8)

Review 5 – (pdf file) (Due Nov. 12)

Lesson 18: Exporting

Exporting documents using other formats

No project

Lesson 19: Invertible matrices – (pdf file)

Counters

Project 19 (Due Nov. 17)

End of lessons