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High School Second Derivative Question -- Help Understanding the Importance Please
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MHB Finding Limit: Get Step-by-Step Help Here
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Undergrad The Ratio of Total Derivatives
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Undergrad Questions about Partial Differentiation Operations
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Graduate Integral of a sinc squared function over a square root function
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MHB Trouble finding the derivative of a fraction using four step process
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Graduate Solving Tricky Integral: How to Proceed Further?
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Undergrad Vector field and Helmholtz Theorem
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MHB Finding a formula for the multiplication of multiple formal power series
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Undergrad The Levi-Civita Symbol and its Applications in Vector Operations
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Undergrad Checking the integrability of a function using upper and lowers sums
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Undergrad Variation sign and integral sign
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MHB How can I solve this limit without using L'Hôpital's rule?
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MHB 34 MVT - Application of the mean value theorem
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High School Electromotive force and trigonometry
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MHB Write on Interpretations of integration (give examples).
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MHB Understanding the Meaning of Integration in Math
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High School Is the sign of the square root dependent on the argument inside it?
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Undergrad What is the limit of (a^n)/n for a>1?
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MHB Maximize 2sinxcosx/[(1+sinx)(1+cosx)]
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MHB How Did Archimedes Achieve Quadrature of the Parabola Without Calculus?
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Undergrad What does this proof mean? (variation of high-order derivative)
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Undergrad Find the value of this definite integral in terms of t, s and alpha
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Undergrad Magnitude and phase of the Fourier transform
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MHB Problem using big O notation
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MHB Solve Complex Integration: Find 2.36 Area of y=-x/2e+1/e+e & y=e^x/2
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Graduate Spatial Fourier Transform: Bessel x Sinusoidal
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MHB Minimize a function: Find value of x that result in lowest value of formula
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MHB S8.3.7.6 minimum vertical distance
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MHB Derivative using the limit definition (without using L'Hospital's rule)
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Undergrad Inverse Laplace transform of a rational function
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Undergrad What is meant by rate of change with respect to volume?
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Undergrad Fourier transform of rectangular pulses
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Undergrad Extract a derivative from an equation
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High School Tangents to a curve as functions of different variables
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MHB DE 20 ty'+(t+1)y=t y(\ln{2}=1, t>0
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Undergrad Velocity Vector Transformation from Cartesian to Spherical Coordinates
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MHB DE 19 t^3y'+4t^2y=e^{-t} y(-1)=1,t>0
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MHB De 17 y'-2y=e^{2t} y(0)=2
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Undergrad Find the area enclosed by the curve y = x csch(x+y)
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MHB DE 2.1.1.16 Find the solution of the give initial value problem
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Undergrad Wolfram Mathworld's article on Cauchy-Riemann Equations
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MHB How to Find the Limit of a Power Function Using Desmos?
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MHB How is z=2xy a Hyperbolic Paraboloid in the rotated 45° in the xy-plane?
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MHB S8.3.7.4. The sum of two positive numbers is 16.
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Undergrad How to calculate this Bessel's terms limit?
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MHB S8. 3.7.10 at which photosynthesis takes place (min/max)
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Undergrad Behavior of a function for large x?
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MHB Which of the following statements is true?
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Undergrad Differentiability assumptions of Wirtinger derivatives
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Undergrad Laplace transform of an expression using transform tables
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High School Confused about holding variables constant during integration
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MHB Real Roots of Polynomial Minimization Problem
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Undergrad Alternative Definitions of the Epsilon-Delta
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Graduate Higher dimensional FTC in electrostatics: Mathematically rigorous or not?
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MHB S8.3.7.3. whose sum is a minimum
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High School Proof of quotient rule using Leibniz differentials
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Graduate Can this difficult Gaussian integral be done analytically?
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Undergrad Possibility of an integral system
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Undergrad Invert an integral equation to find this unknown
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Undergrad Question about Lagrange multipliers
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Undergrad Changing to Polar coordinates in order to calculate this integral
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Undergrad Integrate 1/(x*lnx): Integration by Parts
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MHB What is the Limit of an Exponential Function?
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MHB Calculate the integral using the Fourier coefficients
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MHB 4.1.306 AP Calculus Exam Area under Curve
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Undergrad What is the average value of a bounded periodic function over a period?
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Undergrad Derivative of a complex function along different directions
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MHB Optimizing Truck Speed and Freight Load for Cost Efficiency on Interstate Travel
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Undergrad Is this PDF file the correct derivation?
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Graduate Evaluation of an improper integral leading to a delta function
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Undergrad How shall we derive the second equation from first?
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Undergrad Change of variables for this derivative in a heat transfer equation
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Undergrad Please Post Your Favorite Infinite Product (or Application Thereof)
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MHB Acceleration @ $\dfrac{5\pi}{4}: \sqrt{2}$
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High School Is it possible to find complex numbers Cn, so that both equations are satisfied?
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Undergrad Am I using the right limits on this triple integral?
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MHB How Do You Prove Limits at Infinity?
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High School Is dx Negative in Non-Standard Analysis?
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High School Bartlett's Calculus Paper: Confusing Calculus Notation & Differentials
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Graduate How Does Sincov's Functional Equation Validate the Condition F(x,y) = F(0, y-x)?
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MHB 3.2.15 mvt - Mean value theorem: graphing the secant and tangent lines
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MHB Mean Value Theorem: Showing Change in a Function is Bounded
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Undergrad Evaluating Accuracy of Dynamic Model for Spreading Disease
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Undergrad Surface of a cone by integration
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MHB Light Beam Speed on Shoreline from P - 16km
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MHB Help with understanding this series
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Undergrad Peak of Analytical Fourier Transform
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MHB How to Perform Implicit Differentiation on \(x^2-4xy+y^2=4\)?
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Undergrad Understanding Mixed Partial Derivatives: How Do You Solve Them?
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Graduate How to work with expanded functions?
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Graduate Laplace transform in spherical coordinates
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MHB Calculating the Derivative of a Function Using the Chain Rule
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Graduate Square of an integral containing a Green's Function
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Undergrad Vector calculus identity format question
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Undergrad Taylor series and variable substitutions
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MHB What is the AP calculus exam IVT question?
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Undergrad Proof that limit of difference of infinite limits is indeterminate
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Undergrad Why Does dV Equal ∂V/∂x(dx) + ∂V/∂y(dy)?
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MHB 1.4.293 AP Calculus Exam a(t) and v(t) t=8
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