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Big Picture: Integrals

By Gilbert Strang - MIT
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Lecture Description

The second half of calculus looks for the distance traveled even when the speed is changing. Finding this integral is the opposite of finding the derivative. Professor Strang explains how the integral adds up little pieces to recover the total distance.

Course Description

Highlights of Calculus is a series of short videos that introduces the basic ideas of calculus — how it works and why it is important. The intended audience is high school students, college students, or anyone who might need help understanding the subject.

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Lecture summary with practice problems (pdf with audio)   |  Lecture summary with practice problems (mp3)   |  Practice problems (pdf)

Course Index

  1. Professor Strang Introduces the Series
  2. Big Picture of Calculus
  3. Big Picture: Derivatives
  4. Max and Min and Second Derivatives
  5. The Exponential Function
  6. Big Picture: Integrals