Visualizing Gradients on the Stanford Dish
Math 51 ACE, Winter 2005
On March 3rd, 2005, our ACE section met in the Stanford Hills instead
of our usual classroom. It was a fun "feet-on" activity: we went along
the trail through the hills, computed several gradient vectors and
directional derivatives using a topographic map, and then compared the
computations to what we could actually see. Here is all the information:
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