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MHB What is the Limit of an Exponential Function?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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MHB Inequality involving Gaussian integral
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Graduate Elliptic trigonometric functions as basis for function expansion ?
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Undergrad Can the Chain Rule be Applied to Simplify Divergence in Entropy Equation?
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Undergrad How do I calculate the derivative of the function T_el with respect to yd?
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Undergrad How to Calculate Weights for Gauss-Kronrod Quadrature Using Nodes and Degree?
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Undergrad Proof of addition of limits when the output value is infinite
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Undergrad Riemann integrability with a discontinuity
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MHB 6.1.1 AP Calculus Inverse of e^x
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Undergrad Finite expansion of a fraction of functions
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Undergrad Optimization of multiple integrals
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Undergrad Gradient Vectors: Perpendicular to Level Curves
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Undergrad What is the proof for nested limits?
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Undergrad Maxwell kinetic energy distribution
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Undergrad Hypergeometric Functions Identities: n_F_n & (n+1)_F_n
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Undergrad Chain rule for denominator in second order derivatives
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High School Rationale Behind t-Substitution for Evaluating Limits?
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Undergrad Taking the partial time derivative of a functional
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Undergrad Changing variables in multiple integrals
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Undergrad Is There a Better Way to Solve Integrals Than Symbolab and Mathematica?
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MHB Troubleshooting a Trigonometric Integral: Algebra and Solutions
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Graduate Polylogarithms integrals in Nastase QFT book
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Undergrad How Does Parametrization Help Describe Particle Motion in Mathematics?
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Undergrad Approximation of a function of two variables
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High School Increasing and monotonically increasing: related to the first derivative
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Undergrad Derivation of a Higher Order Derivative Test
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MHB 4.5.1 AP Calculus Exam .... area of piece wise funcion
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Graduate Path between fixed points in a logistic map
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MHB Give a linear map that satisfies given properties
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Undergrad Why f is no longer a function of x and y ?
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Undergrad An integral rewritten (from “Almost impossible integrals“, p.59 in Valean)
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MHB Check existence of limit with definition
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Undergrad Handling Infinite Discontinuity in Multiple Integrals?
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MHB 2.7.2 AP Calculus Exam .... distance traveled estimate
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MHB 1.8.1 AP Calculus find k for critical point
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Undergrad Integration of a hyperbolic function
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Undergrad Why the integral of a complex exponential can't be equal to zero?
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Undergrad Do I need induction to prove that this sequence is monotonic?
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MHB Apc.9.3.1 solution to the differential equation condition
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Graduate Expectation of a Fraction of Gaussian Hypergeometric Functions
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MHB What is the Absolute Minimum Value of f(x)?
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MHB Apc.3.1.8 difference in sphere volume
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MHB Regularization of an Non-conergent Integral
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MHB Geometric interpretation of maps
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MHB What Are the Properties of the Maps Defined in the Content?
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Undergrad Triad T, N, B and path parametrization
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MHB Properties of exponential/logarithm
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Undergrad Stokes Theorem: Vector Integral Identity Proof
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Undergrad Question about this double integral
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MHB 2.1.2 AP Calculus Exam particle at rest
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Undergrad Fourier conjugates and inverse units
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MHB Determining the range for a function to be increasing
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MHB 4.1.310 AP calculus Exam Area under to functions
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MHB Fourier and inverse fourier transform
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Undergrad Double integral and Green's theorem
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MHB 004- USMA(WP) entrance exam question independent variable
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Undergrad Cubic Algebraic Solution: Understanding the Approximation in Equations 4 and 5
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Undergrad Integral involving up-arrow notation
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MHB Differentiation under integral sign
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MHB 2.6.284 AP calculus Exam Lamp and Shadow related rates
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MHB 1.6.365 AP Calculus Exam Limits
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Undergrad Intersections between this infinite power tower and a multifactorial
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A question not related to Calculus
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Explore the Fascinating Sums of Odd Powers of 1/n
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MHB 2.3.361 AP Calculus Exam of differentials of sin wave
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MHB 1.8.6 AP calculus Exam continuity
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Undergrad Define the double factorial as being a continous, non-hybrid function
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MHB 4.2.251 AP calculus exam concave ?
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MHB 4.1.286 AP Calculus Exam .... table of f(t).
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