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Precalculus and Discrete Mathematics Interactive Demos

Lesson	Applet Link	Description
6-9	Sorting Algorithms	See how the BubbleSort and Quicksort algorithms work and compare their relative efficiency on various data sets.
6-9	Central Limit Theorem	Explore distributions of sample means from the U.S. population.
8-3	Polar Tracer	Graph a polar equation and interactively trace rectangular values.
8-3	Limaçon Explorer	Graph polar equations of limaçons and interactively trace rectangular values.
9-7	Quartic Zeros, Global	Explore the zeros, both complex and imaginary, of various quartic polynomial functions.
9-7	Quartic Zeros, Local	Explore the zeros, both complex and imaginary, of various quartic polynomial functions.
10-1, 10-2, 10-3, 10-6	Parametric Tracer	Graph parametric equations and their cooresponding rectangular functions.
11-2, 11-3	Vector 3D	View vectors in 3D.
14-6	Rotate 3D	Investigate rotating a function around the x-axis.

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