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Calculus

The study of change which comes from the Latin for "small stone"; these pages collect my knowledge about mathematics in general.

Why this branch of math is so interesting that it deserves its own page, broken out from general mathematics?

Differential equations seem to be the general language of most systems. From observation, one cannot tell total quantities. But change can always be described. Calculus and the different branches of differential equations link those two ideas together into an equation (or equations) which describe those changes. If those equations are solvable or not is another question entirely.

\begin{equation} \int\limits_a^b f(x) d x=F(b)-F(a) \end{equation}

\begin{equation} \frac{d}{d x} \int_a^x f(t) d t=f(x) \end{equation}

Basis

Calculus is broken up in to differential and integral calculus. Of the two, finding definite closed form solutions for integral calculus is much more difficult than finding a derivative. Calculus has become so influential in the field of mathematics that it is now used as an adjective for disparate fields: propositional, Ricci, variational, lambda, etc.

Notes from a collection of sources on a variety of topics. Including online video series in addition to more traditional sources since they do such a great job at illustrating a point beyond what a textbook or paper could.

Miscellaneous

Assorted items which are not ready for their own pages. Throwing them up here as they pop up and adding to them until they have their own narrative.

Sum of Sinusoids

In high school and much of college, I wondered why there was no closed form expression for the sum of sines or cosines of differing frequencies in the Trigonometric Identities as there were for ones which shared them. Though the Physics 1 would show how a small difference in two frequencies would produce beats, this would come with a limitation of perspective. Though I had heard of Euler's Formula, I did not recognize the geometric interpretation in the complex plane.

Acos⁡(ωt+α)+Bcos⁡(ωt+β)=[Acos⁡(α)+Bcos⁡(β)]2+[Asin⁡(α)+Bsin⁡(β)]2=cos⁡(ωt+tan⁡−1[Asin⁡(α)+Bsin⁡(β)Acos⁡(α)+Bcos⁡(β)])\begin{align*} A \cos (\omega t+\alpha)+B \cos (\omega t+\beta) &= \sqrt{[A \cos (\alpha)+B \cos (\beta)]^{2}+[A \sin (\alpha)+B \sin (\beta)]^{2}} \\ \\ &= \cos \left(\omega t+\tan ^{-1}\left[\frac{A \sin (\alpha)+B \sin (\beta)}{A \cos (\alpha)+B \cos (\beta)}\right]\right) \\ \end{align*}Acos(ωt+α)+Bcos(ωt+β)​=[Acos(α)+Bcos(β)]2+[Asin(α)+Bsin(β)]2​=cos(ωt+tan−1[Acos(α)+Bcos(β)Asin(α)+Bsin(β)​])​

But after having sitting in on Signals and Systems, it made so much more sense to visualize this in the complex plane, where Euler's Formula could be rearranged to represent the trigonometric functions as complex exponentials, so that

eix=cos⁡x+isin⁡x\text{e}^{\text{i} x} = \cos{x} + \text{i}\sin{x}eix=cosx+isinx

can be rewritten as

cos⁡x=12(eix+e−ix) and sin⁡x=12i(eix−e−ix).\cos{x} = \frac{1}{2}\left(\text{e}^{\text{i} x} + \text{e}^{-\text{i} x}\right) \text{ and } \sin{x} = \frac{1}{2\text{i}}\left(\text{e}^{\text{i} x} - \text{e}^{-\text{i} x}\right). cosx=21​(eix+e−ix) and sinx=2i1​(eix−e−ix).

Now it is clear that if the arguments do not match, then their inner product is always zero because they cannot cancel or simplify.

Euler-Lagrange Equation

ddt(∂L∂q˙)=∂L∂qEuler-Lagrange Eqn. 2nd Kind \frac{\text{d}}{\text{dt}} \left( \frac{\partial L}{\partial {\dot{\mathbf {q}}}} \right) = \frac{\partial L}{\partial {\mathbf {q}}} \qquad \textcolor{red}{\texttt{Euler-Lagrange Eqn. 2nd Kind }}dtd​(∂q˙​∂L​)=∂q∂L​Euler-Lagrange Eqn. 2nd Kind 

Multivariate calculus is the extension of of univariate calculus, which studies mappings f:R→Rf: \mathcal{R} \rightarrow \mathcal{R}f:R→R to more generic g:Rn→Rm\boldsymbol{g}: \mathcal{R}^{n} \rightarrow \mathcal{R}^{m}g:Rn→Rm; relating a vector, x\boldsymbol{x}x of some lengthnnn to some other vector y\boldsymbol{y}yof length mmmby multiplication with some some rectangular matrix of dimensions, m×nm \times nm×n. Really there is a very important connection between multivariate calculus and linear algebra. Being consistent in in ideas and This framework is used in all courses except for Machine Dynamics because that class said fuck you that's why. Well, the professor did but that's a story for another time.

Fluid Mechanics content is fully on brainless but is desperately in need of revision and sorting.

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