Resources tagged with: Maclaurin series
There are 6 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Maclaurin series, you may find related items under Calculus.
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Taking Trigonometry Series-ly
Look at the advanced way of viewing sin and cos through their power series.
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Trig Reps
Can you deduce the familiar properties of the sine and cosine functions starting from these three different mathematical representations?
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Bessel's Equation
Get further into power series using the fascinating Bessel's equation.
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Building Approximations for Sin(x)
Build up the concept of the Taylor series
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What Do Functions Do for Tiny X?
Looking at small values of functions. Motivating the existence of the Taylor expansion.
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Towards Maclaurin
Build series for the sine and cosine functions by adding one term at a time, alternately making the approximation too big then too small but getting ever closer.
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