Directional Derivatives
Directional derivatives and the gradient
courtesy of Professor John Putz, Alma College
Lagrange Multipliers
Constrained max/min
Animation of constrained max/min for f(x,y) = 2x
2
+4y
2
subject to the constraint x
2
+y
2
=1
Quicktime version
of the above animation (in
Quicktime format
)