Change and Motion: Calculus Made Clear, 2nd Edition by Starbird, Professor Michael by Starbird, Professor Michael - 2006-01-01

The Great Courses, 2006-01-01. DVD. New. 2006 The Teaching Company (Chantilly, Virginia), four DVD videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) in two 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches tall clamshell cases, with companion paperback course guidebook, vi, 137 pp. A new set, still sealed in publisher's clear wrap. ~BBB~ Professor Michael Starbird of the University of Texas at Austin, covers the concepts of Calculus. Contents: 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.