Duke Resources
Textbook
Prentice Hall has written some web sites for the Edwards and Penney Calculus with Analytic Geometry text that we use. They are:
You have to be a Duke student (or at least have an ACPUB account) and be connected to the Duke network to download Maple. If you connect to Duke with a commercial ISP (whether dial-in, cable, or DSL), you can connect via proxy. All your questions about Duke's proxy servers can be answered here.
Waterloo has their own introduction to Maple and I've made it available for you. The tutorial provides all the basic information you'll need to get started using Maple.
Maple's capabilities for displaying 2 and 3 dimensional surfaces are excellent. For an introduction to function plotting see:
This is part of a larger set of notes covering all of the topics in multivariable and vector calculus.
And here is Waterloo's page of links to other vector calculus demonstrations. I recommend the one entitled, "How to Illustrate a 3-D Function Restricted to a 2-D Curve."
There are a lot of online Maple tutorials. A listing of such tutorials may be found here.
Finally for further information visit the Maple Application Center or do a web search.
I'm not planning to spend very much time using Maple in class, but I am willing to have a tutorial outside of class time. Nonetheless, I strongly encourage you to take advantage of this free software from OIT and play around with it; especially if you want to view a 3 dimensional surface while you are doing your homework. If you have any questions about any of this, please feel free to ask me.