Interesting Aspects of Calculus
Video Lectures
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The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus In this lecture, Lee explains the fundamental theorem of calculus. He believes that the understanding of this theorem has been declining and strongly feels that students should know exactly why they can find areas under the graph by the definite integral. NOTE: A(x) is one of the antiderivatives f(x) and F(x) is any antiderivatives of f(x). There are a few mistakes towards the end of the video. |
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The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus II
In this lecture, Lee continues his explanation of the fundamental theorem of calculus. He believes that the understanding of this theorem has been declining and strongly feels that students should know exactly why they can find areas under the graph by the definite integral. |
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Leibniz's Quest for Pi In this 3-part video, we follow Leibniz in his pursuit to find the area of a quater circle of unit radius via integration, trigonometry and series expansion. |
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Leibniz's Quest for Pi II
In this 3-part video, we follow Leibniz in his pursuit to find the area of a quater circle of unit radius via integration, trigonometry and series expansion. |
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Leibniz's Quest for Pi III
In this 3-part video, we follow Leibniz in his pursuit to find the area of a quater circle of unit radius via integration, trigonometry and series expansion. |
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Wallis' Product I: Integrating sin Raised to the nth Power We shall take a journey through the mind of English mathematician John Wallis and see how he in 1656 discovered an intrinsic formula known as Wallis's Product. NOTE: Lee had to make this a 4-part video without sacrificing the mathematical rigour. Watch all of them for a complete proof. |
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Wallis' Product II: Using the Reduction Formula
We shall take a journey through the mind of English mathematician John Wallis and see how he in 1656 discovered an intrinsic formula known as Wallis's Product. |
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Wallis' Product III: Taking the Limit
We shall take a journey through the mind of English mathematician John Wallis and see how he in 1656 discovered an intrinsic formula known as Wallis's Product.
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Wallis' Product IV: Taking the Limit
We shall take a journey through the mind of English mathematician John Wallis and see how he in 1656 discovered an intrinsic formula known as Wallis's Product.
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In Search for the Orbit This video is a short introduction on the development of planetary orbits by tracing the ideas of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler and Newton. ERRATA: Copernicus, NOT Ptolemy, suggested that the Earth is in the centre and also published 'On the Revolution of Celestial Bodies'. |
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Kepler's Laws: Preliminaries I Before proving Kepler's Laws, we need to formulate some preliminaries namely setting up the coordinate axis. |
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Kepler's Laws: Preliminaries II Before proving Kepler's Laws, we need to formulate some preliminaries namely setting up the coordinate axis. |
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Kepler's First Law I In this video, Lee proves Kepler's First Law of planetary motion. This simple looking law actually turns out to be the hardest one to derive. The law states: A planet revolves in an elliptical orbit with the sun at one of its focus.
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Kepler's First Law II
In this video, Lee proves Kepler's First Law of planetary motion. This simple looking law actually turns out to be the hardest one to derive. The law states: A planet revolves in an elliptical orbit with the sun at one of its focus. |
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Kepler's Second Law In this video, Lee proves Kepler's Second Law: the area swept out by a line segment from the Earth to the Sun is equal at equal time intervals.
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Kepler's Third Law Lee concludes his explanation of Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion by proving, with mathematical rigour as always, Kepler's Third Law - the square of the period of a planet moving around its elliptical orbit is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of that orbit.
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Hyperbolic Functions: Definitions and Graph of cosh(x) A short introduction to hyperbolic functions. Don't get mislead by their 'unpopularity' compared to trigonometric functions. Hyperbolic functions do have their uses. |
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Hyperbolic Functions: Graph of sinh(x) A short introduction to hyperbolic functions. Don't get mislead by their 'unpopularity' compared to trigonometric functions. Hyperbolic functions do have their uses. |
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Hyperbolic Functions: Derivatives Derivatives of hyperbolic functions leading up to the problem of the catenary. |
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The Catenary Problem In this video, Lee explains the classical problem of the catenary. This problem requires knowledge of hyperbolic functions to solve the integration part. |