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2015

HP50gCalculatorTutorial

HP50gCalculatorTutorial
by

MervNewton
ThielCollege
Thecalculatorthatwasrequireduntilthefallof2007foralmostallcoursesstartingwithCalculusIat
ThielCollegeistheHP50g.Thispagecontainslinkstocalculatorlessonsthatcovertheusageofthe
calculatorinseveralofthosecourses.TheseinstructionsalsoapplytotheHP48gIIandtheHP49g+
sincetheyworkvirtuallythesameasthe50g.AlthoughtheMathematicsandComputerScience
DepartmentatThielhasnowswichedtoMathematicaasitrequiredtechnology,Icontinuetoupdate
andaddmaterialtothesetutorials.
TheselessonsareinPDFformatandrequiretheAcrobatReaderwhichisavailablefreefromAdobe.
Lesson1
Introductionand
BasicOperations
Lesson4
MoreGraphing:
ChoosingtheGraphWindow
Lesson7
BisectionMethod
Lesson10
FindingZerosand
Extrema
Lesson13
SigmaNotation

Lesson2
FunctionsandTables

Lesson3
IntroductiontoGraphing

Lesson5
PowerandExponential
Functions
Lesson8
FindingandGraphing
Derivatives
Lesson11
Newton'sMethod

Lesson6
Trigonometricand
HyperbolicFunctions
Lesson9
ConnectivityandBackup

Lesson14
DefiniteIntegral

Lesson15
TrapezoidalRule
andSimpson'sRule
Lesson18
Sequences

Lesson12
SlopeFields

Lesson16
GraphsofAreas

Lesson17
Antiderivative

Lesson19
Series

Lesson20
TaylorPolynomials

Lesson22
PolarCoordinates
andGraphs

Lesson23
RandomNumbers
andCustomMenus

Lesson25
BasicVectorOperations

Lesson26
Cylindricaland
SphericalCoordinates

Lesson27
VectorCalculus

Lesson28
Multivariateand
ComplexFunctions
Lesson31
TheMatrixMenus
Lesson34

Lesson29
3DimensionalGraphics

Lesson30
TheMatrixWriter
andMatrixArithmetic
Lesson33
TOOLandSTACKMenus
Lessons1through35inonefile

Lesson32
SolvingPolynomials
Lesson35

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Lesson21
GraphingParametric
Functions
Lesson24
FunctionAgreement

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AnIntroductiontoProgrammingHPGraphingCalculators
DifferentialEquationsontheHP50g
CubicSplinesontheHP50g

MoreProgrammingCommands

ReturntoUsefulLinkspageResourcespage
LastModified:August16,2013
TheauthorwouldliketothankProfessorMaxShellenbarger,JasonBerkoben'07,KaitlynScherer'09,andKari
Zeleznick'09fortheirhelpinproofreadingthisandpreviouseditionsofthiswork.
Ifyouhavecomments,questions,orcorrectionsregardingthismaterialpleasecontacttheauthor,MervNewton
Copyright:MervinE.Newton,2008

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