SPRING 2012  

Pedagogical
Publications:

Retention-Oriented Curricular Design (2010)

Retention Strategies in Smaller Technology Majors (2006)

The Use of the Visual-Spatial Intelligence in the Solution of Elementary Physics Problems (2003)

Teaching Problem Solving in an Integrated Mathematics-Writing Curriculum  (2002)

Word Problems and Problems with Words: a Possible Solution (2001)

Recruiting and Retaining Faculty and Managing Diverse Majors in Four Year Schools of Engineering Technology  (1999)

7,492,805  Scalable spherical laser

5,889,807  High power photolytic iodine laser  

5,802,093  Continuous wave photolytic iodine laser  

5,179,563  Linear polarization control of high power lasers  

5,173,918  High power laser having staged laser adjoint
                  pulsed feedback  

5,153,425  Broadband optical limiter with sacrificial mirror
                  to prevent irradiation of a sensor system by high
                  intensity laser radiation

Source:     US Patent Office using interneTIFF then Adobe Acrobat
 

Also check out

Just in case you need the software to read the papers:

Resume/CV

My teaching methodologies - what I do and why I do it.

How to scale exams so they have the same average and standard deviation.

Make your own graph paper using Excel

Some examples of how to use the TI-89

Tables of contents for EE-PRO, ME-PRO and EE-200 software

Use Excel 2003/2004 Analysis ToolPak VBA to perform FFTs and IFFTs on the Mac and PC

Put your rosters in Excel

On Line tools:

I spent the summer of 2010 immersed in watching tutorial videos from Lynda.com. At some point you will see my website join the 21st century as a result. I am a visual learner so watching, then doing, works for me. Not all people learn that way, but I do. I have watched many videos for Dreamweaver, CSS, jQuery, Fireworks, Spry, Excel, and Final Cut Express. I have many more tutorials on my list as I want to be proficient at web design as it is now done, Excel VBA, audio and video processing, and the use of Flash in Air applications for visualization of the solutions of dynamics equations. I am thoroughly enjoying my education. Note that Lynda.com is not a free resource but I found it reasonably priced and well worth the investment.

Wolfram Alfpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/) was discovered by one of my students. It will give step by step descriptions of solving intergrals, for example. The program is also accessible as an app on my iPhone. Here is a link so you can test it out for yourself.

IntMath (http://www.intmath.com/) is another site that will do step by step math for you - precalc through differential equations. I recommend it to all my students.

If you want to see physics in action, I highly recommend the apps at PhET (http://phet.colorado.edu/). I have really enjoyed playing with and building my intuition from their simulations.

Please let me know when you find more such sites. I will add them to my own website.

Precalculus handouts:

Solving 2x2 and 3x3 simultaneous equations using both the TI-89 and traditional analytical techniques

Solving oblique triangles

Trig in Four Quadrants

Calculus handouts:

MTH I-IV Formulas Wallet Card revised 1/2012

Fall 2009 MTH 232 Exam

Fall 2009 MTH 232 Exam 1 - Solutions

Derivative rules for Chapter 23

Derivative Table

Fall 2010 MTH 232 Exam 2 - Makeup with answers

Fall 2006 MTH 232 Exam 2 - Makeup with answers

Solution to both MTH 232 Exam 2 Makeups

Some notes for the Chapter 24 exam (Exam 2)

Fourier Series Integrals

Conic Sections

Decentered Conics

One-page conics summary

MTH 232 Exam 3 sample

Solutions for MTH 232 Exam 3 sample

MTH 232 Exam 3 review sheet

MTH 241 - Problem 9 page 747 - Numerical Integration

Differential equations handouts:

Rewrite Acos(wt)+Bsin(wt) as Csin(wt+phi)

Nonhomogeneous Differential Equations and Resonance

Fall 2010 - Variation of Parameters for solutions of nonhomogeneous differential equations.

Fall 2010 - Resonance

Phasors

Formulas from calculus and precalculus that are handy for D.E.

Second order equations for a driven and damped spring

An example of an overdamped spring driven by an exponential decaying force

Series and parallel RL, RC, and RLC circuit analysis from a D.E. perspective

A short table of Laplace Transforms from Derrick and Grossman, Elementary Differential Equations

Notes on the forward Laplace Transform

Analysis of real-world RLC circuits using Laplace Transforms

Time constants for RL series circuits, RC series circuits, and terminal velocity

Newton's Law of Cooling

Analyzing Damped Oscillation Graphs

The Logistic Equation as model refinement

Completing the Square TI-89 program: comsqr

For direction fields for second order equations on the TI-89 as well as other wonderful information about differential equations on the TI-89 get the following document:

http://www.rowan.edu/open/depts/math/HASSEN/ODE/TI89_for_ODE.pdf

Hassen and Schiffman also have nice documents on linear algebra and :and an introduction to the TI-89. All three documents can be found on Hassen's web site:

http://www.rowan.edu/colleges/las/departments/math/facultystaff/hassen/EngAnal2/Calculators.html

Previous Exams:

Fall 2009 Exam 1 (censored a bit)

Fall 2009 Exam 1 (censored a bit) with solutions.

Fall 2009 Exam 2 (censored a bit)

Fall 2009 Exam 2 (censored a bit) with solutions.

Fall 2009 Exam 3 (censored a bit)

Fall 2009 Exam 3 (censored a bit) with solutions.

Fall 2004 Final with solutions

Some of my favorite web sites

Detailed explanation of how to use the TI-89 - a tutorial I wrote several years ago.

A great TI-89 tutorial site also found at Prenhall's TI-89 tutorial site

See the Hassen and Schiffman link mentioned above for more great TI-89 information.

The Engineering Toolbox - The Engineering Toolbox-Sketchup edition

PhET Interactive Science Simulations. Beware -the site is addictive! I think my favorite simulation is Electric Field Hockey. I also enjoy Masses and Springs.

Sketchup video tutorials

Oodles of video tutorials for a small fee - Lynda.com

Interactive mathematics - shows each step of the solution (see above)

Wolfram Alpha - also shows each step of the solution (see above)

Paul's Online Math Notes - great crib sheets

http://education.ti.com/calculators/timath/ has some great exercises

GotoandLearn.com - Free video tutorials for using Adobe products by Adobe Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow

Flashandmath.com - math related Flash and Actioncript tutorials.

Free magaziine on using Blender - Blenderart Magazine

Flash and Flex magazine

Sitepoint.com - tutorials and books on HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.

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