Google Graphing Calculator

When I was in advanced physics, we had some heavy tools at our disposal. MatLab and Mathematica were, begrudgingly, my friends. Then came Wolfram Alpha and, at least, I could do some basic graphing and calculation right from my browser. Of course, more complicated functions, that require several steps to complete, still needed the full robust software. However, it is always nice to quietly (and quickly) look up the x-intercept of a Sine function when you have an embarrassing brain fart.

Now, Google is trying to pull our collective nerd string by adding graphing features to Google Search. There used to be some very basic graphing that Google could do, but it was static and not really useful. This new version is fast, smooth and works just about every time. You can zoom, pan and find coordinates with ease.  I would like to see some added controls that might allow me to add a constant or to adjust a slope right on the graph, but this is an unexpected feature that I greatly appreciate.

Just type a function into Google Search and voila...graphed!

Read more: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/12/showing-some-love-to-math-lovers.html