A First Course in Infinitesimal Calculus

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - Calculus - 439 pages
 

Contents

Constants
16
Classification of functions
17
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18
Geometrical representation of functions of one variable
19
Limits
20
Notation
24
CHAPTER III
30
Orders of magnitude Orders of infinitesimals Orders of infinites
31
Theorems on limits and infinitesimals
35
Fundamental theorems of the calculus
36
The derivative of a function of one variable
38
The physical meaning of the derivative of a function
45
CHAPTER IV
51
The derivative of the product of two or more functions
57
B Logarithmic and Exponential Functions
66
CHAPTER VIII
82
rectangular coördinates
84
polar coördinates
88
polar coördinates
89
Applications involving rates
91
Rolles theorem
93
Theorem of mean value
94
Small errors and corrections relative error
96
Applications to algebra
98
Geometric derivatives and differentials 99106
99
CHAPTER VI
107
Integration of a total differential
109
The nth derivative of some particular functions
111
Successive differentials
112
Leibnitzs theorem
113
Application of differentiation to elimination
114
CHAPTER VII
116
Maximum and minimum values of a function Critical points on the graph and critical values of the variable
117
Inspection of the critical values of the variable for maximum or minimum values of the function
120
Practical problems in maxima and minima
123
rectangular coördinates
127
DIFFERENTIATION OF FUNCTIONS OF SEVERAL VARIABLES ART PAGE 79 Partial derivatives Notation
130
Successive partial derivatives
133
Total rate of variation of a function of two or more variables
134
Total differential
136
Approximate value of small errors
138
two variables
139
Order of partial differentiations commutative
140
Condition that an expression of the form Pix + Qdy be a total differential
141
Eulers theorem on homogeneous functions
142
Successive total derivatives
143
CHAPTER IX
144
Change of the dependent variable
145
Dependent and independent variables both expressed in terms of a single variable
146
CHAPTER X
148
Examples of the summation of infinitesimals
150
Integration as summation The definite integral
154
CHAPTER XIV
157
Integration as the inverse of differentiation The indefinite integral
160
Geometric or graphical representation of definite integrals
163
Properties of definite integrals
164
Geometric or graphical representation of indefinite integrals
166
Integration in series
227
Mechanical devices for integration
228
CHAPTER XV
230
several variables
232
rectangular coördinates
234
rectangular coördinates
235
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236
polar coördinates
238
CHAPTER XVI
240
polar coördinates
242
rectangular coördinates
245
polar coördinates
248
Areas of surfaces of revolution
249
Areas of surfaces z fx y
253
Mean values
255
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260
Order of contact
261
Osculating circle
264
The notion of curvature
265
Total curvature Average curvature Curvature at a point
266
ART PAGE 147 The curvature of a circle
267
The circle of curvature at any point of a curve
268
polar coördinates
271
Evolute of a curve
272
Properties of the evolute
273
Involutes of a curve
276
CHAPTER XVIII
277
Locus of ultimate intersections of the curves of a family
278
Theorem
280
To find the envelope of a family of curves having one parameter
281
Envelope of a family of curves having two parameters
284
Rectilinear asymptotes
286
Asymptotes parallel to the axes
289
Oblique asymptotes
290
polar coördinates
292
Singular points
293
To find multiple points cusps and isolated points
296
Curve tracing
298
CHAPTER XIX
300
Questions concerning infinite series
301
Study of infinite series
303
Definitions Algebraic properties of infinite series
304
Tests for convergence
307
Integration of infinite series
310
Differentiation of infinite series
312
Applications of the integration and differentiation of series
313
CHAPTER XX
318
Another form of Taylors theorem
323
Relations between the circular functions and exponential functions
327
Applications of Taylors theorem in elementary algebra
333
Singular solutions
341
INTEGRALS FOR REVIEW EXERCISES AND FOR REFERENCE
401
FIGURES
409
ANSWERS
415
INDEX
433
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