Change and motion
Subtitle: calculus made clear
By: Michael Starbird ; The Teaching Company
Contributors: Teaching Company
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598032321
Subjects: Calculus
Other titles: Lecture transcript and course guidebook
Notes: Accompanies the DVD by the same name.
Table of contents: title: part I. Lecture one: Two ideas, vast implications; title: Lecture two: Stop sign crime : the first idea of calculus-the derivative; title: Lecture three: Another car, another crime : the second idea of calculus-the integral; title: Lecture four: The fundamental theorem of calculus; title: Lecture five: Visualizing the derivative-slopes; title: Lecture six: Derivatives the easy way -symbol pushing; title: Lecture seven: Abstracting the derivative: circles and belts; title: Lecture eight: Circles, Pyramids, cones, and spheres; title: Lecture nine: Archimedes and the tractrix; title: Lecture ten: The Integral and the fundamental theorem; title: Lecture eleven: Abstracting the integral-pyramids and dams; title: Lecture twelve: Buffon's needle or pi from breadsticks.; title: part II. Lecture thirteen: Achilles, tortoises, limits and continuity; title: Lecture fourteen: Calculators and approximations; title: Lecture fifteen: The best of all possible worlds-optimization; title: Lecture sixteen: Econimics and architecture; title: Lecture seventeen: Galileo, Newton and baseball; title: Lecture eighteen: Getting off the line-motion in space; title: Lecture nineteen: Mountain slopes and tangent planes; title: Lecture twenty: Several variables-volumes galore; title: Lecture twenty-one: The fundamental theorem explained; title: Lecture twenty-two: Fields of arrows-differential equations; title: Lecture twenty-three: Owls, rats, waves, and guitars; title: Lecture twenty-four: Calculus everywhere.