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Undergrad Model for spread of contagious disease.

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Infinite Sums Involving cube of Central Binomial Coefficient

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Solving an Exponent Equation: How to Prove the Two Solutions?

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Graduate How do you properly define an infintisimal scaler?

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Graduate Finite element procedures book - Bathe

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Graduate What is the Expected Value in a Probabilistic Computing Scenario?

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Graduate Symmetry of an Integral: Is it Zero?

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Graduate Why does the delta function integral converge from -∞ to ∞?

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What is the Optimal Rectangle in a Semicircle with Radius R?

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Find Central Angle: Newton's Method

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Graduate Can This Double Integral Be Solved in Closed Form?

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Graduate Tree diagram to second derivative

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Integral involving polylogarithms up to order 4

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The Euler Maclaurin summation formula and the Riemann zeta function

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Graduate Deriving the Integral Property from Theorems 1-45 and 1-46

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Undergrad Fourier series: complex vs ordinary method

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Graduate Visualizing second derivative test - Hessian

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Graduate Contour integral with poles on contour

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Trouble with Solving a Partial Differentiation Problem?

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Graduate Form of function over interval

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How Do You Sketch the Curve of y = f(x) with Given Characteristics?

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Computing integral of 3/(x²-4)

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Area under a curve using method of exhaustion

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Find nth Derivative - Quick Tutorial

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Undergrad Why is the limit of the sum 1/(n+1) + 1/(n+2) + ... + 1/(4n) equal to ln4?

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Undergrad What Determines the Gradient of ln(ax) for Different Values of a?

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Undergrad What causes alternating patterns in the graph of tan(x)/cos(x)?

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Graduate Integrate sinx/x using fourier transform?

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Graduate Can the constant term of a power series be zero?

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Graduate Limit of expression containing unknown function.

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Undergrad Incomplete integration explanation

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Undergrad Differentiating the Area of a Circle

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Undergrad Finding calculus for an IB maths exploration on aircraft dimensions

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Find Tangent Lines Through Origin to a Circle

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Ready to Tackle an Advanced Calculus Challenge?

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Finding the Minimum Value of a Complex Expression

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Graduate What Conditions Ensure Convergence of Sequences?

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Graduate Integration of 2 product. possible without numerical method?

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Graduate Understanding Partial Derivatives with Multiple Variables

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Nth derivative of algebraic function

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Find b so curve and line divide region into equal areas

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Undergrad Calculating Distance Between Point and Line in 3-Dimensional Space

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Change of variables for multiple integral using u and v substitution

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Are there more solutions than this? Limit Problem

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Graduate Why do we say the upper limit is the variable?

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Graduate Treatment of Integral as an Operator?

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Find the area of the indicated region

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Solving Multivariable Problems Using Lagrange Multipliers

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What is the area of a region with r = 2 + cos(theta)?

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Find the area bounded by the curve #2

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Is the Golden Ratio Integral to Solving Trigonometric Integrals?

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Undergrad Calculus Textbook for Microbiology major

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Graduate Fredholm integral equation with oscillatory kernel

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Approximate the area of the region

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Graduate Can a Divergent Free Vector Field be Expressed in a Certain Manner?

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Rectangle inscribed between a parabola and the x-axis

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Undergrad Pretty good approximation for Pi

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Undergrad Discontinuities when integrating

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Finding the Area bounded by the curve

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What is the derivative of ln(x + √(1 + x^-25))?

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Finding extrema of f(x,y) = sin(x)sin(y)

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Undergrad Why must the upper limit match when integrating?

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Graduate How to Integrate 1/(x^3 + bx - c)?

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Undergrad How Do You Solve ∫sin(sin(x))dx?

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Evaluating definite integrals via substitution.

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How to approximate instantaneous rate of change

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Graduate Simple Integration Orthogonal Sin

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Graduate Monotonically increasing function

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しおり's question at Yahoo Answers regarding Newton's method

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How Can a Farmer Minimize the Cost of Fencing a Rectangular Field?

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Undergrad Definite integral of √(4-(x-2)²) from 0 to 1.5 giving negative square root

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Show that sometimes the acceleration is exactly 120mi/h^2

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Logarithmic integral of second power

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Undergrad Is there a way to eliminate the second derivative in calculus using integration?

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Graduate Hypersphere Hypervolume Applications?

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Ally Samaniego's question at Yahoo Answers regarding partial sums

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Emily's questions at Yahoo Answers regarding a solid of revolution

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Finding F(r(t)) for a vector field line integral

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High School Max and mins for a constant function

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Undergrad Quotient rule and binomial theorem

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For what values of a does lim_x-->a f(x) exist

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Riemann Sum Definite Integral Question

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Undergrad How Do You Integrate 1/(k + sin(x))?

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Graduate Functions with increasing derivatives

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Undergrad Is solving this possible with Calc 2?

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Undergrad How important is memorizing proof?

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Undergrad Why Does the Taylor Polynomial of Ln(x) Alternate in Sign?

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Undergrad Why no nth order integration like nth order differentiation

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Undergrad Understanding Limits of Integration: Cartesian or Polar First?

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Undergrad Constant e: The Unique Intersection of Exponential and Linear Functions

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Graduate Functional derivatives worksheet

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