October 12-21, 2004 --- Classes 13-16 Final Project, Introduction to Mathematica 

Activities:

	Final Project

		It is time to start thinking about your final project.  Some 
		of you may have a problem related to your research that can 
		be used for the project.  If not, there may be some problem
		that interests you that would serve as a project.  If you 
		don't have an idea of your own, you might like to look through
		our text book.  If there is a chapter that we will not cover, 
		you might find some homework problems that can be combined to
		make a project.  The book also has some suggestions for 
		projects.  Some of these, even in chapters will will cover some
		of may make suitable projects.  So start to think about what 
		you want to do, because in a couple of weeks, I will be asking
		everyone to get their project approved by me.

	Introduction to Mathematica

	An eight page handout on Mathematica was distributed.
	Over the next four classes we will go through the handout
	and the examples it contains.
	
	On 10/12, we stopped after the discussion of how to create a function
	that can be used to define a random walk.  We also plotted the walk
	using the ListPlot function.  In the next class, we will elaborate a
	bit and then continue with Sec. H. at the top of page 5.