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Hiking and Climbing in Yosemite

David Smith and Lang Moore, Duke University
Bill Mueller, Mathworks

Purpose: to establish the meanings of gradient and directional derivative in the context of a contour map of real terrain
Prerequisites: the concepts of gradient and directional derivative
Equipment needed: a printer (for the downloaded contour map), a metric ruler, and a calculator
Photo credit: National Park Service, Yosemite National Park home page. For other views of Yosemite, visit the Waterfall Notebook and the Virtual Yosemite sites. For many other links to Yosemite information, try the Yosemite Web Index.

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