Flash Tutorials by Ahab

Welcome to Dickee's Dive ... this document is a mirror of Brandon Williams' (aka Ahab on the boards) Flash-oriented math tutorials. Brandon has graciously granted my request, allowing me to provide access to his tutorials for the benefit of the Flash community.

The purpose of this tutorial is to show an alternative to representing 3D environments in Flash.

If there was one entity that has proved itself enormously useful in nearly ever area of mathematics and physics, it would be the vector.

This tutorial is going to show you the *easy* side of differentiating. In the examples from the article before we had to do quite a bit of work. Believe it or not those examples are pretty trivial. We are going to use that very general method of differentiating to develop some rules that we can use

Since I am assuming you already read the "Introduction" I only need to touch on a few things from the last article. First, differential calculus is all about finding this ratio: dy/dx . That ratio represents the slope of a line tangent to a curve at a point.

Probably one of the scariest courses a person can take in high school is calculus. Some people have taken the class, passed (barely sometimes), and gone on to college or whatever without even knowing what calculus is all about and just how useful it is. Well, calculus is definitely one of the (if no

This is the final tutorial before we begin the "good" calculus stuff: derivatives.

It is kind of weird how some of these tutorials spawn off of each other. I had just sat down to write about kinematics and quickly saw that I should first write something about derivatives and just calculus in general. Once I had started that I saw that I should probably give an introduction to calc

Ok...it is time to clear some confusion that you may have about 3-D. It is not hard. And no, I am not taking on an arrogant connotation here. I am saying that 3-D is not hard (or should not be) for pretty much everyone willing to learn.

I was planning on writing a small tutorial on vectors which was to be included in my last 3D tutorial, but this got so lengthy I decided to put it entirely separate.