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Dr. Moretti’s Mathematica Notebooks – Geometry

Mathematica Notebooks for Geometry

Important Note: The links for the notebooks open a new window or tab with a Google Drive page – the current settings for our homepages won’t allow me to host mathematica notebooks locally.

Triangle Centers

This notebook lets you explore different notions of the center of a triangle – the centroid, circumcenter, and so on.

finding centers of a triangle

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Projective Graphing

This notebook lets you graph an affine curve and find the “points at infinity” that correspond to the projective completion (and their multiplicity).

projective graphing

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Circles Tangent to 3 Lines

This manipulation finds the circles which are tangent to 3 given lines.  Most of the time the equations of the circles will be fairly ugly even if the equations of the lines themselves are nice (the algebra underlying the problem involves solving a system of quadratic equations).

circles tangent to 3 lines

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Conic Sections

This manipulation lets you experiment with the focus-directrix definition of a conic section.  You can move the focus, the points defining the directrix, and the eccentricity of the conic.

conic sections

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Estimating Pi

This manipulation shows one of the original ways to estimate the constant π  – by thinking of it as the area of the unit circle and then estimating the area of the circle using inscribed and circumscribed polygons.  The inscribed polygon areas are always under the true are and the circumscribed polygon areas are always over – but as the number of sides of the polygon grows, both areas converge on the single value of π.

estimating pi

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