Ordinary Differential Equations Manipulatives ("Mathlets")

In the course, we will employ a series of specially written computer toys, or demonstrations, called "Mathlets." You will see them used in lecture occasionally, and each problem set will contain a problem based around one or another of them. Each Mathlet has an associated "Help" file which will open in a new window and provide user instructions.

Funding for the development of the Mathlets was provided by a grant from the The d'Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in MIT Education as part of The d'Arbeloff Interactive Mathematics Project (d'A I M P). The Mathlets were designed and developed in collaboration with Hubert Hohn. Used with permission.

Mathlets

• Amplitude and Phase: 1st Order
• Amplitude and Phase: 2nd Order
• Amplitude and Phase: 2nd Order II
• Beats
• Complex Exponential
• Complex Roots
• Convolution: Accumulation
• Convolution: Flip and Drag
• Damped Vibration
• Damping Ratio
• Euler's Method
• Forced Damped Vibration
• Fourier Coefficients
• Harmonic Frequency Response
• Harmonic Frequency Response II
• Heat Equation
• Isoclines
• Linear Phase Portraits: Cursor Entry
• Linear Phase Portraits: Matrix Entry
• Linearized Trigonometry
• Matrix Vector
• Phase Lines
• Poles and Vibrations
• Solution Targets
• Taylor Polynomials
• Trigonometric Id
• Waves
• Waves II
• Wheel
• Wheel II