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Calculus: Problems and Solutions
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Thecalculusblog.com is a place for calculus problems, solutions, and discussion.
- Added on: May 29th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Properties of Log
There are some properties of logarithms that you absolutely must know to get through calculus. Most students shriek or faint when they see a logarithm, but if you learn these simple rules they become much easier to work with. Get a little practice,...
Limits That Don’t Exist
Some functions don’t have a limit as the value of their parameter approaches . Here’s one example: just doesn’t exist. Why is that? Because as increases, keeps oscillating between 1 and -1. It never approaches any one value, ...
Integration by Parts
When we looked at integrating the natural logarithm, we used a little trick: we took the product rule , integrated it to get , and made a clever choice of and to find the integral we wanted. This is called integration by parts, and it’s usu...
Textbook Rental
There’s a new service for students to rent textbooks for the semester: chegg.com. If you’re not planning on using your books later, this might be a good option for you. Check it out! I should mention that if you’re in a science or...
Integrating the Natural Logarithm
You’ll probably see this integral someday: . It looks so simple, and you think, “gee, I probably was supposed to memorize that” or “oh I can do that, it looks so easy.” But then you don’t remember the antiderivati...
Remembering One Trig Identity
We’ve been talking about a way to figure out trig identities without having to just memorize them. Here is how I showed the identity , by just knowing Euler’s formula and some facts on complex numbers. I started off by using Euler’...
