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David Smith and Lang Moore,
Duke University
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Purpose: to establish the meanings of gradient and directional derivative in the context of a contour map of real terrain | |
Prerequisites: the concepts of gradient and directional derivative | |
Equipment needed: a printer (for the downloaded contour map), a metric ruler, and a calculator | |
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Photo credit: National Park Service, Yosemite National Park home page. For other views of Yosemite, visit the Waterfall Notebook and the Virtual Yosemite sites. For many other links to Yosemite information, try the Yosemite Web Index. |
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Last Modified: September 21, 2001 |