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Explaining Horizontal Shifting and Scaling
I always find myself wanting for a clear explanation (to a college algebra student) for the fact that horizontal transformations of graphs work in the opposite way that one might expect.
For example, ...
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What Mathematics questions can be better solved with concepts from Physics?
Over the years, I've seen several questions in mathematics that can be solved using concepts borrowed from Physics. Having seen these question, I'm interested to find out what other mathematics ...
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Elementary Geometry Nomenclature: why so bad?
A long-ish wall of text, and I apologize.
Some background: when I was a first-year university student, my chemistry professor was lecturing and was trying to find the word to describe a shape. A ...
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Geometric intuition behind gradient, divergence and curl
I learned vector analysis and multivariate calculus about two years ago and right now I need to brush it up once again. So while trying to wrap my head around different terms and concepts in vector ...
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How to fill up the gap between a typical advanced undergraduate algebraic curve course and High school basic geometry/precalculus course?
Based on this question i asked recently: A question about geometry of plane curve books, i think it is too advance for a HS student/ typical second or third year undergraduate math majors to read on ...
