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Change and motion calculus made clear /

Title: Change and motion [videorecording] : calculus made clear / Michael Starbird.
Author: Starbird, Michael P.
Publication: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2006.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Not available - Please for assistance.	Moving image	Use in library	QA303.2.C495 2006 pt.1	Off-site
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4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Professor Michael Starbird of the University of Texas at Austin, covers the concepts of Calculus.

Series Statement

Great courses. Science & Mathematics

Uniform Title

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Alternative Title

Calculus made clear

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Note

Course consists of 24 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 2 videodiscs and each videodisc consists of six lectures. Each course guidebook covers the 12 lectures contained in 2 videodiscs in one part.

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Contents

Pt. 1. disc 1. Two ideas, vast implications -- Stop sign crime : the first idea of calculus: the derivative -- Another car, another crime : the second idea of calculus: the integral -- The fundamental theorem of calculus -- Visualizing the derivative: slopes -- Derivatives the easy way: symbol pushing -- part I. disc. 2. Abstracting the derivative: circles and belts -- Circles, Pyramids, cones, and spheres -- Archimedes and the Tractrix -- The integral and the fundamental theorem -- Abstracting the integral: pyramids and dams -- Buffon's needle or [pi] from breadsticks.
pt. 2. disc 3. Achilles, tortoises, limits, and continuity -- Calculators and approximations -- The best of all possible worlds: optimization -- Economics and architecture -- Galileo, Newton, and baseball -- Getting off the line: motion in space. part II. disc 4. Mountain slopes and tangent planes -- Several variables: volumes galore -- The fundamental theorem extended -- Fields of arrows: differential equations -- Owls, rats, waves, and guitars -- Calculus everywhere.

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Princeton University Library