This worksheet animates part of the motion of the classic ladder sliding down a wall.

Please answer the two questions posed in the opening text.

Respondents will need to establish their own link to the DirectSearch package

Slide_Ladder.mw

The uploaded worksheet attempts to determine arc lengths of an ellipse by two methods. Why do their results differ?

ArcLength_of_Ellipse.mw

For example for an ellipsoid with principal axes 3, 2 and 1 along the x, y and z coordinate axes respectively, with center at the origin and truncated at x equals 1.

What math will reveal its center of mass and its moment of inertia for an axis of revolution through the center of mass and parallel to the y axis?

This worksheet has an error when executing EulerLagrange.

How can this error be avoided?

Spring_Pendulum.mw

Initial text in the uploaded worksheet describes an attempt to partially tile the Poincare disk and asks to be shown how a known complex transformation can be used to accomplish this.

 Poincare_tiling.mw