Archive for the ‘Mathematics’ Category

What is the length of a spiral around a paraboloid? This is an interesting application of integral calculus, involving an environmentally friendly cooker design.

Google tries hard to provide super-fast Web pages, and uses calculus in the process.

Here's some math background behind the recently updated pulley applet.

A manufactures of range hoods with curved sides wants to know what shape to cut the sheets.

Investigate the meaning of the z-table using this interactive graph.

This interactive allows you to place a mask over the photos of so-called beautiful people, and see how close their face is to the ideal.

A recent comment from a Twitter colleague got me thinking about the value of graphical solutions of equations.

Here's an applet where you can investigate how matrix operations work.

Dr Geo is a free download that allows us to construct a wide variety of geometric objects.

Overleaf (writeLaTeX) is an online tool where you can create math documents collaboratively.