Change and motion : calculus made clear

DVD

Change and motion : calculus made clear / producer, Alisha Reay ; directors, Jon Leven, Jim Allen.

Starbird, Michael, (teacher.). Leven, John, (film director.). Allen, Jim, (film director.). Reay, Alisha, (film producer.). Teaching Company, (production company,, publisher.).

Summary:

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

Record details

ISBN: 1598032313
ISBN: 9781598032314
Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 137 pages ; 21 cm).
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2006]

Content descriptions

General Note:: Course consists of 24 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 2 videodiscs and each videodisc consists of six lectures. The course guidebook covers all 24 lectures in 4 videodiscs.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144 of guidebook).
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.
Participant or Performer Note:: Lecturer: Michael Starbird from the University of Texas at Austin.
System Details Note:: DVD, region 1.
Language Note:: In English.