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Novel Topics
The text treats a number of topics often not included in "Calc 3" texts:
Partial Derivatives in Thermodynamics
Second Order Constrained Derivatives
Visualization of the Osculating Circle and Sphere
Visualization of Surface Curvature
Functional Dependence and Applications
Local and Global Vector Potentials
It also treats a few topics using advanced features of Mathematica
Non-elementary formulas:
The period of the nonlinear pendulum
The normal (or Gaussian) statistical integral
The inverse of xx.
Difficult, but concrete computations:
Critical point conditions in higher dimensions: Mathematica computes eigenvalues
The distance between surfaces as a constrained 6D MAX-min problem with bordered hessians