Dear Calculus 2 Students, This is why you're learning Taylor Series

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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025

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  • @zachstar
    @zachstar  5 лет назад +452

    For anyone that didn't see the most recent video, this channel used to be 'MajorPrep' and the name just recently changed. I'll stop bugging you guys about it after this but I know I'll still get comments from people who don't watch every video on this channel and didn't know about the change. Also if you enjoyed the 'mathematics used to solve crime' video I did a while back you will definitely enjoy the video coming next!

    • @subscribetopewdiepie8746
      @subscribetopewdiepie8746 5 лет назад +3

      Second like.

    • @MarkMcDaniel
      @MarkMcDaniel 5 лет назад +1

      @VeryEvilPettingZoo -- 3 = pi = e.

    • @aidarosullivan5269
      @aidarosullivan5269 5 лет назад +2

      Oksy, i came to ask what happened to MajorProp that his voice've transferred to a new channel. I see now

    • @roygalaasen
      @roygalaasen 5 лет назад +3

      How can one not watch all your videos? I have to give you credit for picking interesting topics and explaining it well, and even if I know about things, there is always some new angle or insight as well as nice visualisations.

    • @baremetaltechtv
      @baremetaltechtv 5 лет назад

      I liked the old name better, and I admit I was quite confused because I didn't remember subscribing to a channel named Zach Star :]

  • @blissconnect_
    @blissconnect_ 5 лет назад +558

    I should be studying calculus 1 right now but might as well see what the future holds for me haha

    • @MiguelELJr
      @MiguelELJr 5 лет назад +16

      Don't mind you gonna fail

    • @Indicudi
      @Indicudi 5 лет назад +28

      Calc 2 is a whole different ballpark lol

    • @seangrimes1
      @seangrimes1 5 лет назад +39

      Calc 1: Derivatives
      Calc 2: integrals
      Calc 3: multivariable Calc 1 and 2 (easier than Calc 1 and 2)
      Calc 4: Calc 3 but with multiple derivatives and integrals. (Pretty tough but much more fun than it sounds.)
      There, I just told you the next 2 years of math classes. Lol

    • @rijulranjan8514
      @rijulranjan8514 5 лет назад +3

      Slim Jim why is Calc 2 considered so hard? I'm also in Calc 1 and it seems like everybody at my school dreads it

    • @seangrimes1
      @seangrimes1 5 лет назад +24

      @@rijulranjan8514 because you do convergence tests and they're not always straightforward. It's a guess and check kind of thing and it can get super annoying. You'll spend like 10 minutes doing a test to see if an equation converges or not and the test will be inconclusive, so you have to try something else. Will some of the convergence tests you just have to get lucky and do the correct test

  • @jsal7666
    @jsal7666 5 лет назад +1280

    why do 1 feel so uncomfortable with seeing "Calculus 2" instead of "Calculus II"

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 лет назад +129

      calculus two

    • @m3po22
      @m3po22 5 лет назад +90

      Seems like you're fine with writing "why do i" instead of "Why do I" so I think you'll get over it

    • @noahweyer3404
      @noahweyer3404 5 лет назад +38

      2(Calculus)

    • @PasCone103Z
      @PasCone103Z 5 лет назад +41

      Calculus 1+1

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 лет назад +52

      calculus 2rd edition

  • @Mu_Lambda_Theta
    @Mu_Lambda_Theta 5 лет назад +335

    Who even approximates sin(x) as x anymore? That is so yesterday!
    *Today, we say 1=cos(x)*
    _No, we do not approximate cos(x) as 1, we approximate 1 as cos(x)_

  • @QDWhite
    @QDWhite 5 лет назад +256

    9:03 I learned the Taylor approximation for the far-field strength of a dipole in my electricity and magnetism class. That was a particularly frustrating day. Our prof had us all attempt it ourselves and we all failed. Then he showed us the Taylor series approximation. When he started striking off terms that "didn't matter" I just about lost it. I left the class thinking "well yeah, anything is easy if you can just call the hard parts insignificant and strike them out. Let's see how he feels about me doing that on the midterm".
    As you can tell, I'm so totally over it.

    • @benshaw750
      @benshaw750 5 лет назад +2

      mellow I’m taking e&m this semester, if I remember, ilyk

    • @lolvivo8783
      @lolvivo8783 5 лет назад +2

      Thats so true. I just lost it when i thought the prof and books were messing up eqn. I thought C'mon how do u say that as equal and not mess up later!
      I lost interest for all E&M, Antennas, microwave.

    • @n0tbran
      @n0tbran 5 лет назад +1

      Me too... But I still gotta face it

    • @joelcurtis562
      @joelcurtis562 3 года назад +1

      @@plentygolden Yep. E&M and Stat Mech. Did a number on my GPA back in the day.

    • @hOREP245
      @hOREP245 2 года назад +3

      Ok, I'm two years late but whatever.
      When they say "far-field" they always mean in an asymptotic sense.

  • @justinjustin7224
    @justinjustin7224 5 лет назад +509

    As my calc professor put it some years back: "most equations are rude and hard to work with, but Taylor is great at making them well behaved and easy to work with."
    Or as I tend to paraphrase it: "equations can be assholes that are impossible to work with, but Taylor can kick their ass into place so that they're well behaved."

    • @pewpew9711
      @pewpew9711 5 лет назад +33

      @pyropulse This one is going in my cringe compilation

    • @DarthZackTheFirstI
      @DarthZackTheFirstI 5 лет назад +2

      im surprised marvel never made a comic about the taylor hero!

    • @V-for-Vendetta01
      @V-for-Vendetta01 Год назад

      ​@@pewpew9711😂😂😂😂

  • @RC32Smiths01
    @RC32Smiths01 5 лет назад +612

    I feel like you should do a Dear.... for all Calc courses, or just all courses in general like Linear Algebra. That'd help out so much more than you think

    • @douglasstrother6584
      @douglasstrother6584 5 лет назад +15

      "Linear Algebra" ~ Gilbert Strang MIT
      ruclips.net/video/7UJ4CFRGd-U/видео.html

    • @douglasstrother6584
      @douglasstrother6584 5 лет назад +6

      "Linear Algebra" ~ 3Blue1Brown
      ruclips.net/video/fNk_zzaMoSs/видео.html

    • @lincolndexter9514
      @lincolndexter9514 5 лет назад +3

      @@douglasstrother6584 this is obviously not the same format

    • @DanteKG.
      @DanteKG. 5 лет назад +7

      I can vouch for 3B1B teachings

    • @douglasstrother6584
      @douglasstrother6584 5 лет назад

      "Introduction to Linear Algebra" ~ Gilbert Strang
      math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/

  • @awabqureshi814
    @awabqureshi814 5 лет назад +1631

    Look at this engineering propaganda smh. Stay in maths; don’t approximate kids

    • @jeangtech1830
      @jeangtech1830 5 лет назад +14

      Lmao

    • @sadface7457
      @sadface7457 5 лет назад +31

      Pure mathmatics do not approximate rather abstract.

    • @sadface7457
      @sadface7457 5 лет назад +6

      Clearly has not studies PNT as the prime counting function is an approximation.

    • @Cyberspine
      @Cyberspine 5 лет назад +96

      Mathematicians hate engineers because they take math and apply it for something with practical value.

    • @sadface7457
      @sadface7457 5 лет назад +53

      @@Cyberspine An applied mathematician enters the chat.

  • @AlbinoJedi
    @AlbinoJedi 5 лет назад +10

    Thank you. I got a physics undergrad and I've never really understand the Taylor series. The bit at 8:53 where you series expanded the total relativistic energy and turned it into mc^2+.5mv^2 blew my mind.

  • @seangrimes1
    @seangrimes1 5 лет назад +441

    Student: what are the purpose of the equations if we can't use them?
    Teacher: yes EXACTLY! They have a purpose, they're not just hanging out in reality for no reason 😂

    • @seangrimes1
      @seangrimes1 5 лет назад +30

      @pyropulse they always say that, it doesn't matter who tutors them, as long as it is not the teacher they'll always say "if the teacher taught like you did it's be easier."

    • @howardlam6181
      @howardlam6181 5 лет назад +17

      @pyropulse because it's harder to have engagment during the lecture. When you tutor, you are having them do actual problems. But during the lecture, it's more about delivering the background knowledge required to do the problems. And it could be a long road from there. When time is limited, some just choose the easy path and just say everything they need and leave the rest to you. The students should proactively take notes and think. But for me lectures don't really work sometimes because when you take notes and think on your own, your mind wanders off and miss the next bit of the lecture. Missing any critical bit of information can make the rest of the lecture incomprehensible.

    • @ThefamousMrcroissant
      @ThefamousMrcroissant 5 лет назад +9

      @pyropulse I've also been an assistant in many courses(albeit electrical engineering and computing science) and all I can say is that I despise your look on students. I've had people who would repeatedly ask simple questions, which I would eventually ask to stop asking simply for they'd slow down my tutorial, but I wouldn't come close to saying "I hated being a student because others asked stupid questions". If you think like that you fail to understand the frustration that comes with studying for so many of your fellow students.
      My problem with studying always was that there is practically *no* engagement; take for example analysis or calculus. These subjects float somewhere in the realm of extreme abstraction without being applied anywhere until way later(usually masters). Due to the modularity of most studies you'd have a course about them in year 1, then one somewhere in year 2 and sometimes another in year 3, without any logical connection between them. So you'd push yourself through just to have to redo most of it again a while later, instead of making sure everything taught is reinforced by applying it after being taught(and no, jump through the hoop I don't consider applying). I'll also vow for designing semesters in a fashion that would allow particular subjects to be analyzed in depth, before moving on, rather than spreading them out over several years. I think the fact that it isn't is a very large offender in the never ending, as you call it "stupid", questions.

    • @NomadUrpagi
      @NomadUrpagi 5 лет назад +2

      @pyropulse can i ask where do you live? If its USA i found that it is so popular to rely on tutors it almost takes away the responsibility off the students to learn and acts more like a good business model for people in academia around colleges. Mass tutoring isnt that popular in my country.

    • @jyothishkumar3098
      @jyothishkumar3098 3 года назад +1

      @@howardlam6181 true. Never learned anything from school, but when I read the books on my own I understand it perfectly.

  • @lilaismygirl5524
    @lilaismygirl5524 2 года назад +7

    This was really helpful. No one has explained the context for using Taylor series which made learning how to do them really hard. Appreciate the in-depth vid!

  • @allensimpson4454
    @allensimpson4454 5 лет назад +112

    Having just finished my Machine Learning Class last semester, I can say with confidence that Taylor Series, while Hell, are far easier for computers to calculate than doing the "normal" method. And when you have to run more than a million calculations of a particular function even a 1% increase in computational speed/efficiency may save HOURS of computing time (given large enough datasets). Even if you aren't in Computer Science, if you have a friend even tangentially interested in AI, being able to lord over them the gift of Taylor Series is going to be worth it for them.

    • @mathabahassan3471
      @mathabahassan3471 4 года назад +3

      Omg this motivated me

    • @Viarelll
      @Viarelll 2 года назад +3

      i just started to learn taylor series for computer science

  • @milly4543
    @milly4543 5 лет назад +10

    I love your maths videos because I think it's important to bring the applications of maths closer to those studying it. I wasn't a fan of the subject in school because I simply didn't get why I was being taught something I'd never use. Later on I discovered just how amazing and powerful maths is and by learning about the applications of maths I worked backwards and studied some topics that really got me into it. It's the most interesting field by far but gets such a bad rep in school lol

  • @metarus208
    @metarus208 7 месяцев назад

    Thanks!

  • @sharikumar007
    @sharikumar007 5 лет назад +228

    We approximate, I didn't mean to round (pi = 3).
    Lol, 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

  • @Zack-xz1ph
    @Zack-xz1ph 5 лет назад +26

    I enjoy going back and reviewing the basics, which I was forced to cram during my semesters of calculus. it's also fun to solve problems using C or python once you have a good intuitive understanding

  • @Scarabola
    @Scarabola 5 лет назад +22

    You upload this a day before I take my first Cal 2 class in the Spring semester. Stop stalking me!

  • @stephencasper87
    @stephencasper87 5 лет назад +28

    I absolutely LOVED Calculus II. Despite not being a mathematics major, Calc II has been my favorite class so far. Having a great professor definitely helped.

    • @why8410
      @why8410 Год назад

      Yeah it was a interesting class.

  • @okpgamingdk1093
    @okpgamingdk1093 5 лет назад +8

    Another great video dude! I appreciate the way you teach people the applications of different mathematical topics. It's a great way of motivating people to learn and appreciate math like i do.

  • @Mayur7Garg
    @Mayur7Garg 5 лет назад

    At around 9:00 , the equation at the top is not an approximation but in fact the same equation as 'm' is not equal to 'm0’. If you plug in the value of 'm' in terms of 'm0', you will get the same equation. The equation which is arrived at the bottom is the approximated equation as it has 'm0' at both places and is only valid for objects not moving at a speed close to light.

  • @danielpipa
    @danielpipa 5 лет назад +25

    5:06 "perfect approximation" sounds weird

  • @Araghos
    @Araghos 5 лет назад +13

    "So although it doesn't sound professional; being good enough is often what we're after." (11:13)
    I disagree that it's in any way unprofessional to approximate. I'll agree it's not rigoristic in a mathematical and analytical sense, but that's not the point. Without approximations there's a plethora of things we wouldn't have been able to do technologically in today's society. Having an answer that works with 0,x% error is infinitely more professional than not having an answer at all.

  • @karandave7967
    @karandave7967 5 лет назад +3

    Wow. Someone finally speaking mathematics. Very much satisfied. Great job expecting more regarding Laplace and Fourier transform

    • @zachstar
      @zachstar  5 лет назад +1

      Thank you! And if you haven't seen them already I've done a few in depth videos on fourier and laplace.
      Fourier (and some laplace): ruclips.net/video/3gjJDuCAEQQ/видео.html
      Laplace: ruclips.net/video/n2y7n6jw5d0/видео.html

  • @hoodedR
    @hoodedR 5 лет назад +7

    This is amazing... My teacher always says that he loves the Taylor series.. now I know partly why.

  • @Arkunter
    @Arkunter 5 лет назад +5

    Hey Zach I really appreciate you putting out these awesome videos. People like you are what keep my interest in math and physics mainstream. Also, I really enjoyed your skit videos. Those were Fricking hilarious!

  • @pipertripp
    @pipertripp 5 лет назад +9

    Great stuff. It's frustrating that the motivation is so often never mentioned.

  • @WattersZ
    @WattersZ Год назад +1

    I'm glad you made this video - I enjoy the engineering memes, and I was looking for a reason behind calc 2 because it's definitely more than just learning to integrate more functions. Thank you!

  • @ayrapetoff
    @ayrapetoff 3 года назад +1

    Спасибо!

  • @daesoolee1083
    @daesoolee1083 4 года назад

    Oh my holly forking COW. I've learned Taylor series many times in various classes till the end of my Master's, but JUST NOW got the true intuition on the Taylor Series. Thanks for the crazily awesome video. This is crazy.

  • @NativeBox
    @NativeBox 4 года назад +1

    I love this, I watched this while talking calc 1 a year ago and today was my last day of calc 2!!! I understand this so much now 😍

  • @LumenPlacidum
    @LumenPlacidum 5 лет назад +2

    As someone teaching differential equations to high school kids, the unit that we have on infinite series always feels weirdly arbitrary to them. This is a great video that really demonstrates a lot of how these things are used in day-to-day calculations. Thank you.

  • @josephwong3936
    @josephwong3936 5 лет назад +2

    Hooke's law of spring force is also a linear approximation of real spring force.

    • @carultch
      @carultch 5 лет назад

      Most springs cease to be useful as springs, once you extend them beyond the linear elastic range. The metal deforms permanently, and the spring doesn't return to its original position. With metal springs, Hooke's law is good enough for the entire reversible elasticity domain, and rarely would you need to know a higher order function to model it.
      For plastic springs, the stress strain function has curvature in this range, so indeed using Hooke's law is simply a linear approximation.

  • @muizzsiddique
    @muizzsiddique 5 лет назад +3

    I needed this video 3 years ago.

  • @culater
    @culater 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for the informative overview, nice. I like and appreciate your videos

  • @farouqanbar8428
    @farouqanbar8428 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you for doing this
    As a second year engineering student I had no idea what the point of series was despite getting an A in Calc II, I just thought it was some useless math talk. Now I understand and I have you and this great video to thank for so

  • @zachh6868
    @zachh6868 Год назад

    You should put keywords in the description so this would pop up when I'm learning about energy, velocity (kinematics), and electrical fields, since that would make learning all that even more interesting and explain how all those formulas are connected. I never made that connection until rewatching this video. This also is intetesting that we are applying the ideas for alternating series in the electric field example.

  • @vishalmishra3046
    @vishalmishra3046 Год назад

    10:47 This is why atom appears to be neutral from a distance even though the location of positive charges (nucleus) and negative charges (electrons) are far but not too far from each other.

  • @burningsilicon149
    @burningsilicon149 3 года назад

    At 4:17 plugging in y(0)=-1 and x=0 into the differential equation to solve for y’’(0) the equation was written incorrectly as
    y’’(0) = 0 + y(0) + [y(0)]^2 instead of the correct form y’’(0) = 0 + y(0) -[y(0)^2] but it was evaluated correctly to be -2.

  • @polarstate
    @polarstate 2 года назад

    Thanks for this video. I find it really helpful to know what motivates the techniques we learn.

  • @macherlakomaraiah2358
    @macherlakomaraiah2358 Год назад

    I feel so interesting when you say about it's applications but in classes solving problems by hands makes me de motivate

  • @kiransebastianshaji7042
    @kiransebastianshaji7042 3 года назад +1

    The applications for the equations are left in youtube for us to browse i wish i had math a teacher who could teach me math like this
    You are doing a hell of a job brother keep going.........😍

    • @MathElite
      @MathElite 3 года назад

      I make math content on my channel

  • @MathManMcGreal
    @MathManMcGreal 5 лет назад +2

    Hey hey! Teaching series next month - I'm going to play this video for them then. Thanks!

  • @MyDataScienceTutor
    @MyDataScienceTutor 4 года назад

    This was so helpful! I wish my calc professor in undergrad could have explained this as well as you did. Thank you for making this video and sharing it!!

  • @meowsicle7463
    @meowsicle7463 2 года назад

    this video is cool as an algorithmic recommendation because while it is squarely in my interest zone, it is completely outside my understanding and competency so it's just jazz to me

  • @NoName-cx3gk
    @NoName-cx3gk 5 лет назад +3

    I like the Equioscillation theorem from Tschebyschow a bit more then the Taylor Approximation.

  • @GrantDexter
    @GrantDexter 5 лет назад +1

    e=mc^2 itself is an approximation based on the first term of a Taylor series.

  • @luken476
    @luken476 5 лет назад

    Hey great video. My physics professor was going through a derivation and used these and I was so lost. Now it makes loads of sense, thanks.

  • @aswinibanerjee6261
    @aswinibanerjee6261 5 лет назад +2

    Please make videos on detailed understanding about various techniques on solving differential equations numerically

  • @pucek365
    @pucek365 5 лет назад +2

    Love this! Thank you very much :)

  • @apowell9848
    @apowell9848 3 года назад

    Thanks, perfect motivation to study for the final

  • @kgregory8236
    @kgregory8236 5 лет назад

    We talked about Taylor Series in my Numerical Methods class today. I’m glad I found this

  • @danielfogli1760
    @danielfogli1760 5 лет назад +20

    What do you mean "doesn't sound professional"? "Good enough" is essentially the definition of "professional" 🤣

  • @funkysagancat3295
    @funkysagancat3295 5 лет назад +3

    2:41 WAIT that only works with some functions there are a bunch of them that aren't equal to it's Taylor series.

    • @funkysagancat3295
      @funkysagancat3295 5 лет назад

      @pyropulse precisely

    • @funkysagancat3295
      @funkysagancat3295 5 лет назад

      @pyropulse yes

    • @zachstar
      @zachstar  5 лет назад +4

      Yeah e^x just happens to have an infinite radius of convergence, maybe should've been more specific about that but no it's not always a perfect approximation.

  • @intheshell35ify
    @intheshell35ify 5 лет назад +7

    Well done! But, when I solve the world's energy crisis, should I mention Zach Star or Major Prep in my Nobel acceptance speech??

  • @douglasstrother6584
    @douglasstrother6584 5 лет назад +13

    Without Taylor Series, we'll have to go to "Plan B": philosopher, musician, poet, bar bouncer.

  • @DrDeuteron
    @DrDeuteron Год назад

    We do the Taylor expansion because, at equilibrium, it is quadratic…and that is exactly solvable as simple harmonic oscillators

  • @bruhdabones
    @bruhdabones 5 лет назад +11

    Mom: are you studying?
    Me:

  • @luigeribeiro
    @luigeribeiro 5 лет назад

    NICE!
    Some numerical methods, like Runge-Kutta, are derived from some terms of a Taylor series, also, some differential equations, like the heat conduction and the famous Navier-Stokes, are derived from some terms of a Taylor series.

  • @mcdemoura
    @mcdemoura 5 лет назад

    Congrats on your videos. I wish I had a resource like that 28 years ago, when I was studying calculus.

  • @twixgaming8077
    @twixgaming8077 3 года назад

    fascinating! Didn't know maclaurin series is this useful.Thnx for letting us know. :)

  • @wernerheisenberg7192
    @wernerheisenberg7192 5 лет назад +63

    Calculus 2?!?
    i ALrEaDy hAd ThIs iN eLemEnTeRy ScHoOL!!

    • @atabow1543
      @atabow1543 4 года назад +1

      Right... Babies never ,"learn English" in order to speak it. All American Babies just yell, "mERica!" as they slide out of the birth canal. Afterwords they immediately realize that America is so great that you don't have to learn any other languages in order to thrive. #DontHateThePlayerHateTheGame

  • @Luka-ub4pm
    @Luka-ub4pm 3 года назад +1

    I didn’t understand. Maybe because I still lack the prerequisites of this topic but great video though. I understood the essence of this taylor series

  • @yeast51
    @yeast51 Год назад +1

    I always round up pi to 10 so it cancels g out.

  • @Felipe-53
    @Felipe-53 5 лет назад

    Awesome channel, aewsome content, thank you!

  • @AchyParts
    @AchyParts 5 месяцев назад

    Crazy that I watched this video in class today knowing that the other channel exists

  • @asokt4931
    @asokt4931 Год назад

    I appreciated watching this video very much - in some sense, I gather mathematic is a bit like art. There is a sort of piece where its about intuition, and you make those aproximation and it works in certain cases.

  • @k3dr1
    @k3dr1 5 лет назад +5

    What is a difference between a mathematician and engineer? Topology and approximation

    • @carultch
      @carultch 5 лет назад +1

      A mathematician and an engineer were both chaparones at a middle school dance. There was a line of boys, and a line of girls, who started 16 feet apart, and were very shy of one another. Every minute, they halved the distance to each other. From 16 ft to 8 ft, then 8 ft to 4 ft, and so on.
      The mathematician remarked, "they will never make to each other."
      The engineer replied, "yeah, but in a few minutes, they will be close enough for all practical purposes".

    • @WhisDragonBallSuper
      @WhisDragonBallSuper 5 лет назад +1

      I am an enginering student and I confirm we have studied topology 😀

  • @phillipgrunkin8050
    @phillipgrunkin8050 5 лет назад +8

    Thank you for posting this AFTER I take calc 2 LMFAO

  • @duckymomo7935
    @duckymomo7935 5 лет назад

    Taylor approximations can solve problems and simplify some math formulas (eg Taylor series can solve complicated limits better than l’hopitals)

  • @Diego0wnz
    @Diego0wnz 5 лет назад +2

    1=v^2 /c^2 and c is speed of light

  • @neenaparikh5252
    @neenaparikh5252 4 года назад

    Could you do a video on quantum computing and what majors/minors needed in your undergrad to get into the field?

  • @theshamanite
    @theshamanite 5 лет назад +5

    I remember the estimation unit in 6th grade math. I always estimated wrong, I guess.

  • @chiragmantri4947
    @chiragmantri4947 5 лет назад

    Well Thanks For Great Introduction For Series 😘
    Gonna Learn Them Next Year 🔥

  • @andrewjin6618
    @andrewjin6618 3 года назад

    Watching videos like these makes me wish I actually tried harder in high school calculus

  • @Carnezz
    @Carnezz 5 лет назад

    Students often ask for the applications of the topic we're learning, not realizing many of the concepts we know didnt have any applications at first.

  • @NotYourAverageNothing
    @NotYourAverageNothing 5 лет назад +3

    4:07 why is there a plus sign on the last term?

    • @zachstar
      @zachstar  5 лет назад

      Typo, should’ve been a minus.

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 лет назад

      silence fool! do not question the sacred math scriptures!

  • @Diaming787
    @Diaming787 3 года назад

    A lot of content electrodynamics course as a physics major dealt with approximations just like that last example. Everything in STEM, minus pure math is approximation.

  • @thecolorjune
    @thecolorjune 5 лет назад +3

    Wow, and I thought I had forgotten everything I learned in Calculus

  • @avadragon6131
    @avadragon6131 4 года назад +1

    Thank you

  • @1verstapp
    @1verstapp 5 лет назад

    >the first e^x example
    8 years of calculus [40 years ago] and no-one ever told me WHY!
    thanks, Zach.

    • @snoosebaum995
      @snoosebaum995 5 лет назад

      same here , it was just trying to memorize meaningless junk , now 5 yr olds get a better understanding

  • @valtersnelke8787
    @valtersnelke8787 5 лет назад +1

    Really liked the aplication videos

  • @muhammadhamza4494
    @muhammadhamza4494 5 лет назад +1

    I studied Maclaurin Series recently in Alevel Further Maths. It was good to know the reason for it 😍😍😍

  • @k1ngjulien_
    @k1ngjulien_ 5 лет назад +1

    As an engineering student, I have to say your videos are very helpful and much easier to understand than 3b1b 😁

  • @astro-wanderer-3559
    @astro-wanderer-3559 5 лет назад +1

    Thank You so much.
    Please help by answering this question, as average students how do we visualize day-to-day topics of our stream, and find their practical use and how are they applied in the complete process.
    Just like a regular CS student knows how to implement all the data structures but the actual code used in production is way different than those taught or written in classrooms, how to bridge that gap, and get the actual reality/purpose of the concept.

  • @jonathangrey6354
    @jonathangrey6354 5 лет назад +30

    1:03 You Filthy Engineers

    • @NamaSaya-wg9gn
      @NamaSaya-wg9gn 5 лет назад +6

      You mean 1:10

    • @Zack-xz1ph
      @Zack-xz1ph 5 лет назад +3

      113355. now separate: 113 355. flip and divide. 355/113 ≈ π

  • @periodictable118
    @periodictable118 Год назад +2

    e^x vs e^x (Taylor's Version)

    • @dettolgerm8345
      @dettolgerm8345 23 дня назад

      taylor swift never learns that e^x.

    • @maui3893
      @maui3893 2 дня назад

      rofl. massively underrated comment.

  • @QDWhite
    @QDWhite 5 лет назад +11

    Define engineering in two words
    Me: 1:07

  • @terrariariley1643
    @terrariariley1643 10 месяцев назад

    thank you most formula's are too complicated im rlly bad at formula but your formula makes sense to me

  • @maximilianbur2560
    @maximilianbur2560 5 лет назад +1

    Awesome video

  • @adriancook9742
    @adriancook9742 5 лет назад +4

    Love your work pal. I am 57 yrs old and trying my best to understand math and your work is very helpful 😊👍

  • @mhsn27mhsn10
    @mhsn27mhsn10 5 лет назад

    Very nice video and explain👍 with idea for choice this topic .
    There topic now no one explain or not explain by simple (why we using and where are come from ?) way in any video before which it "Differintion Equation with Orders" (ODE) .
    Thank you Zack ... keep going .

  • @BangMaster96
    @BangMaster96 5 лет назад

    God damn it, i took Calculus and Linear Algebra 3 years ago, and i already forgot so much of the concepts. I hate that we continuously forget stuff, even some of the stuff we understand, and we have to practice it frequently in order to remember it long term.
    Now, i'm here, re-reviewing my Calc and Linear Algebra, the human brain, as complex and amazing as it is, sucks at recalling things that we already learned.

  • @SumitCPVP
    @SumitCPVP 5 лет назад +1

    Hey please🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 make playlists of your videos

  • @mechwarreir2
    @mechwarreir2 5 лет назад +1

    if you use taylor series to solve for PDE's, you are going to either make a super computationally unstable/inefficient algorithm or one that just doesn't work (due to discontinuous boundary conditions or such). The REAL reason you learn Taylor series is so that you can kinda learn a bit of numerical analysis, and THEN you learn the real shit known as "Fourier Series". Fourier Series can be used to solve anything if you have the right spectral resolution and sample rate.

  • @fjolublar
    @fjolublar 5 лет назад

    I don't know how but i was unsubscribed after the channel name change. Good thing that the video came to the recommended section and i noticed and i subbed again.

  • @snox_trot
    @snox_trot 2 месяца назад

    zach star himself is a genius.

  • @nan9180
    @nan9180 4 года назад +1

    "love on a real train" by tangerine dream on the background, huh, nice

  • @30fpsapexlegends87
    @30fpsapexlegends87 10 месяцев назад

    I get that we need to approximate things for simpler and possible solutions, but what about when you need 100% accuracy like in aeorspace engineering for example? I assume you'd want pretty much 0 error when you're dealing with rockets, no?

  • @realdragon
    @realdragon 5 лет назад

    You think approximations in engineering are bad? In astronomy we approximate no atmosphere (or flat atmosphere)

  • @rohitbhosle6521
    @rohitbhosle6521 5 лет назад +1

    I was not aware of fact that u r chanel name is Zach star ....but when I read title and saw thumbnail ...I don't know why may be due to intuition I know it's ur video bro (major prep)