Change and motion [videorecording] : calculus made clear / Michael Starbird.
Professor Michael Starbird covers the concepts of Calculus.
Record details
- ISBN: 1598032313
- ISBN: 9781598032314
- Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 137 pages ; 19 cm).
- Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2006]
- Copyright: ©2006
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Course no. 177.Twenty-four calculus lectures (each 30 minutes in length).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Disc 1. Two ideas, vast implications ; Stop sign crime: the derivative ; Another car, another crime: the integral ; Fundamental theorem of calculus ; Visualizing the derivative: slopes ; Derivatives the easy way: symbol pushing -- Disc 2. Abstracting the derivative: circles and belts ; Circles, pyramids, cones and spheres ; Archimedes and the tractrix ; Integral and 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 ; Best of all possible worlds: optimization ; Economics and architecture ; Galileo, Newton and baseball ; Getting off the line: motion in space -- Disc 4. Mountain slopes and tangent planes ; Several variables: volumes galore ; Fundamental theorem extended ; Fields of arrows: differential equations ; Owls, rats, waves and guitars ; Calculus everywhere.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Lecturer, Michael Starbird from the University of Texas at Austin.
- System Details Note:
- DVD, NTSC.
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