HP-50g Calculator Tutorial

by

Merv Newton
Thiel College

The calculator that was required until the fall of 2007 for almost all courses starting with Calculus I at Thiel College is the HP-50g. This page contains links to calculator lessons that cover the usage of the calculator in several of those courses. These instructions also apply to the HP-48gII and the HP-49g+ since they work virtually the same as the 50g. Although the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Thiel has now swiched to Mathematica as it required technology, I continue to update and add material to these tutorials.

These lessons are in PDF format and require the Acrobat Reader which is available free form Adobe.

Lesson 1
   Introduction and
  Basic Operations		 Lesson 2
  Functions and Tables		 Lesson 3
  Introduction to Graphing
Lesson 4
  More Graphing:
  Choosing the Graph Window		 Lesson 5
  Power and Exponential
  Functions		 Lesson 6
  Trigonometric and
  Hyperbolic Functions
Lesson 7
  Bisecion Method		 Lesson 8
  Finding and Graphing
  Derivatives		 Lesson 9
  Connectivity and Backup
Lesson 10
  Finding Zeros and
  Extrema		 Lesson 11
  Newton's Method		 Lesson 12
  Slope Fields
Lesson 13
  Sigma Notation		 Lesson 14
  Definite Integral		 Lesson 15
  Trapezoidal Rule
  and Simpson's Rule
Lesson 16
  Graphs of Areas		 Lesson 17
  Antiderivative		 Lesson 18
  Sequences
Lesson 19
  Series		 Lesson 20
  Taylor Polynomials		 Lesson 21
  Graphing Parametric
   Functions
Lesson 22
  Polar Coordinates
  and Graphs		 Lesson 23
  Random Numbers
  and Custom Menus		 Lesson 24
  Function Agreement
Lesson 25
  Basic Vector Operations		 Lesson 26
  Cylindrical and
  Spherical Coordinates		 Lesson 27
  Vector Calculus
Lesson 28
  Multivariate and
  Complex Functions		 Lesson 29
  3 Dimensional Graphics		 Lesson 30
  The Matrix Writer
  and Matrix Arithmetic
Lesson 31
  The Matrix Menus		 Lesson 32
  Solving Polynomials		 Lesson 33
  TOOL and STACK Menus
Lesson 34
  Working with Units		 Lesson 35
  Statistics		  
Below are other resources you may find helpful.
An Introduction to Programming HP Graphing Calculators More Programming Commands
Differential Equations on the HP 50g
Cubic Splines on the HP 50g
 
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Last Modified: August 1, 2011

The author would like to thank Professor Max Shellenbarger, Jason Berkoben '07, Kaitlyn Scherer '09, and Kari Zeleznick '09 for their help in proof reading this and previous editions of this work.

If you have comments, questions, or corrections regarding this material please contact the author, Merv Newton

©Copyright: Mervin E. Newton, 2008