Calculus Labs

Section numbers refer to Rogawski's Calculus, First Edition.

• Section 5.1: Approximating and Computing Area

  (Cabbage fertilized with urine)
  

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• Section 5.2: The Definite Integral

  (Uncomplicated gonnorhoea in London's MSM -- Men who have Sex with Men -- population)

• Section 5.3: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

  (Uncomplicated gonnorhoea in London's MSM -- Men who have Sex with Men -- population)
  

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• Section 5.4: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (part II)

  (Three populations of cicadas)
  

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• Section 5.5: Net or Total Change as the Integral of a Rate

  (Cabbage fertilized with urine, three populations of cicadas)
  

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• Section 6.1: Area Between Two Curves

  (Global Land Surface Air Temperature)
  

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• Section 6.2: Setting Up Integrals: Volume, Density, Average Value

  Volume: BP oil spill, average flow rate
  Average Value: Sea Ice Extent

• Section 6.3 (6.4, etc.): Volumes

  (mass of the atmosphere)
  

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• Section 7.1: Exponential Functions

  (global CO₂ emissions)
  

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• Section 7.2: Inverse Functions

  (mass of the atmosphere)

• Section 7.3: Log Functions

  (global temperatures)
  

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• Section 7.4: Modelling with Logs

  (Logs and Frogs, and rigor mortis!)
  

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• Sections 7.6, 10.1: Differential Equations

  Newton's Law of Cooling (time of death)

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  A simple model for global mean temperature, based on Newton's law.

• Chapter 12: Parametric Equations

  (Planetary Orbits: Milankovitch cycles and Earth's climate)