Change and Motion : Calculus Made Clear

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Call Number: DVD 515 St Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Course consists of 24 lectures.
"Course No. 177"--disc labels.
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
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.
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.
Lecturer: Michael Starbird.
Professor Michael Starbird of the University of Texas at Austin, covers the concepts of Calculus.
DVD format.

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