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• Spherical coordinates
  Illustration of spherical coordinates with interactive graphics.
• Lines (and other items in Analytic Geometry)
  How to describe the equation for a line in terms of horizontal and vertical coordinates.
• Polar coordinates
  Illustration of polar coordinates with interactive graphics.
• Cylindrical coordinates
  Illustration of cylindrical coordinates with interactive graphics.
• Polar coordinates mapping
  How polar coordinates can be viewed as mapping from the polar plane onto the Cartesian plane.
• Parametrization of a line
  Introduction to how one can parametrize a line. Interactive graphics illustrate basic concepts.
• Parametrization of a line examples
  Examples demonstrating how to calculate parametrizations of a line.
• Vectors in two- and three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates
  A introduction to representing vectors using the standard Cartesian coordinate systems in the plane and in three-dimensional space.
• The elliptic paraboloid
  Description of the elliptic paraboloid with interactive graphics that illustrate cross sections and the effect of changing parameters.
• The hyperbolic paraboloid
  Description of the hyperbolic paraboloid with interactive graphics that illustrate cross sections and the effect of changing parameters.
• The ellipsoid
  Description of the ellipsoid with interactive graphics that illustrate cross sections and the effect of changing parameters.
• The double cone
  Description of the double cone with interactive graphics that illustrate cross sections and the effect of changing parameters.
• The hyperboloid of one sheet
  Description of the hyperboloid of one sheet with interactive graphics that illustrate cross sections and the effect of changing parameters.
• The hyperboloid of two sheets
  Description of the hyperboloid of two sheets with interactive graphics that illustrate cross sections and the effect of changing parameters.
• How linear transformations map parallelograms and parallelepipeds
  Why linear transformations map parallelograms onto parallelograms and parallelepipeds onto parallelepipeds.

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