Calculus through Data & Modelling: Integration Applications
Johns Hopkins University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Joseph W. Cutrone, PhD
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About the course
This course continues your study of calculus by focusing on the applications of integration. The applications in this section have many common features. First, each is an example of a quantity that is computed by evaluating a definite integral. Second, the formula for that application is derived from Riemann sums. Rather than measure rates of change as we did with differential calculus, the definite integral allows us to measure the accumulation of a quantity over some interval of input val
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“Sadly, in this course the material was presented in such an oversimplified way and stripped of details that it was very difficult to develop an understanding of the concepts being presented. For instance, for curvature the instructor only gave us the formulas for computing it, but didn't say where they came from nor even gave us any intuitions behind them.”
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