- Announcements:
- The exams have been graded:
- Mean: 64
- Standard Deviation: 19
- Key
- Furthermore, if you'll come see me, to discuss the exam and the points you've missed, I'll give you back 30% of the remaining points you missed. You should check out the key before coming to see me.
- Why homework is important
- Homework, Section 4.7: #5, 6,
7, 9, 10, 12; and do a really good job with #19.
Due Monday, 3/16.
- The Fourth Dimension:
- With a partner:
- What thoughts and questions do you have about the fourth
dimension? What is the "fourth dimension"? Where have
you already encountered the fourth dimension?
- Some Drawing
- Projections of a pet
- Two-dimensional pets
- Sweeping out additional dimensions ("inked points")
- point (imprisoned!)
- point -> line (imprisoned by two points, each on one
side)
- line -> plane (imprisoned by a circle)
- plane -> three-space (imprisoned by a sphere)
- three-space -> the fourth dimension!
- Slicing and dicing: Problems II.6, II.7
- What if there were creatures confined to two dimensions? How would
we mess with their heads?
- Safes aren't safe (p. 312)
- 3-D surgery (p. 311)
- 3-D rope tricks (p. 313)
- How might a cube dipped into two-dimensional space appear
to creatures stuck in two-space?
- Now: what if there are four dimensional creatures living with us?
How might they mess with our heads?
- Safes aren't safe!
- Miracles: 4-D surgery
- Angels
- Hypercubes (or Tesseracts)
- Slicing and dicing: Problem II.8
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