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Change and motion [videorecording (DVD)] : calculus made clear / Michael Starbird.

by Starbird, Michael P.

Teaching Co., 2006.

Calculus, Integral.

Fractional calculus.

Differential equations.

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Mathematics.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. Change and motion [videorecording (DVD)] : calculus made clear

Calculus made clear [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] :

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (19 cm.).

Course consists of 24 lectures (30 min. each) 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.

Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

"Course no. 177"--Disc surfaces.

Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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.

Producer, Alisha Reay ; directors, Jon Leven, Jim Allen.

Taught by Professor Michael Starbird, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin.

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

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