Quadratic Function
Quadratic Equation
Discriminant
Quadratic Parameter
Applications
Resources

Quadratic Resources

By Kardi Teknomo, PhD.

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This section contains my selection of resources on quadratic function, equation and formula (including references of this tutorial)

Applets

• Drawing parabola
• Parabola to Quadratic equation: move the 3 points to get the equation
• Quadratic function: get feeling of the change of parameters
• Quadratic solver

Tutorials

• Nipissing Univ. Quadratic tutorial
• Pedal and evolute (with applet) of parabola
• Purple Math : Factoring quadratic
• The math Page: Q & A
• Algebra: practice quadratic equation
• ThinkQuest on Quadratic
• If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula . . .by Daniel J. Velleman

Applications & History

• 101 uses of a quadratic equation by Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin (part 2 is here)
• History of Quadratic, cubic and quartic equations
• Paul's Online Math note

Videos

• Quadratic Equations Video - Dimensions of a Box
• Quadratic Functions - Experimentally Determining Archery Trajectories

Papers/Articles

• Henry G. Baker (1998) You Could Learn a Lot from a Quadratic, ACM Sigplan Notices 33,1, p. 30-38.
• Rodney Nillsen, An Application of Quadratic Functions to Australian Government Policy on Funding Schools, Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, v21 n1 p58-64 2007
• Worfram Math Work on Quadratic: history and derivation

Books

• J.H.Pollard (1977) A handbook of numerical and statistical techniques, Cambridge University press.
• Press, W.H., et al. (2007) Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing , Cambridge Univ. Press.

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