Change and motion

Change and motion: calculus made clear

by Starbird, Michael

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Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Change and motion : calculus made clear / [lectures given by] Michael Starbird.

Summary

Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2006.
  • Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):The Teaching Company
  • Place of Publication:Chantilly, VA
  • Language:und
  • Publication Date:2006.

Notes

In one container.

Course no. 177.

Lectures 1-24 of 24 lectures on 4 discs in two containers.

The Physical Object

  • Description:4 videodiscs (720 min.) : : digital ; : 4 3/4 in. +

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1598032313, 9781598032314
  • oclc:on1001916853
  • LC Classification:QA303
  • Dewey Decimal:515

Table of Contents

Part 1. DISC 1. Lecture 1. Two ideas, vast implications. -- Lecture 2. Stop sign crime : the derivative. -- Lecture 3. Another car, another crime : the integal. -- Lecture 4. The fundamental theorem of calculus. -- Lecture 5. Visualizing the derivative : slopes. -- Lecture 6. Derivatives the easy way : symbol pushing. -- Lecture 7. Abstracting the derivative : circles and belts. -- Lecture 8. Circles, pyramids, cones and spheres. -- Lecture 9. Archimedes and the tractrix. -- Lecture 10. The integral and fundamental theorem. -- Lecture 11. Abstracting the integral: pyramids and dams. -- Lecture 12. Buffon's needle or pi from breadsticks.

Part 2. DISC 3. Lecture 13. Achilles, totoises, limits and continuity. -- Lecture 14. Calculators and approximations. -- Lecture 15. Best of all possible worlds : optimization. -- Lecture 16. Economics and architecture. -- Lecture 17. Galileo, Neweton and Baseball. -- Lecture 18. Getting off the line : motion in space. -- Lecture 19. Mountain slopes and tangent planes. -- Lecture 20. Several variables : volumes galore. -- Lecture 21. The fundamental theorem extended. -- Lecture 22. Fields of arrows : differential equations. -- Lecture 23. Owls, ra…

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