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A lot of the "word problems" that come up in calculus seem silly and contrived, because they are. The inventory…
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Optimization, or finding the maximums or minimums of a function, is one of the first applications of the derivative…
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By: Jesse
This part is optional, as students are unlikely to be tested on this…
Howdy folks, Alex here! I thought I'd start this blog off right, with one of the most popular (and head-spinning)…
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The chapter on series is notorious for making calculus students want to hurl their textbooks into a fire, curl…
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Or more specifically, a second-order linear homogeneous differential equation with complex roots. …