Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Calculus For Makers: Book Trailer”.
Hi, i’m joan horvath and i’m a rocket scientist and i’m rich cameron, a hardware hacker and 3d printer engineer. We’Ve collaborated on nine books together, but we’re really excited about our latest one make calculus. We think calculus is really pretty easy if you think about it. As geometry before you get too tied up in algebra for the basics, you don’t need a 3d printer, we’ll show you how to think about fundamentals with just lego bricks. If you do have a 3d printer, though we show you how to create cool models.
All of our 3d printable models are open source and you can share them freely from our repository they’re written in a code-based cad program called openscad, so you can change them and learn some code too, along the way. Some of these designs will also generate a paper version that you can cut out. For example, the rate at which a curve is changing is called a derivative. The derivative here is this part of the model. If we add up all the changes we get back the original curve, this is called taking an integral these two curves are related in this way, and it’s easy to see with these models. It’S even more fun with sine and cosine curves, where you can show the rate of change of the rate of change and so on and go the other way to add the changes back up. If you sweep a curve around an axis, you get a surface of revolution, they can be hard to imagine and work with, but a 3d printer really helps a lot and because no make calculus book would be complete without electronics. We show you how to use a circuit playground to measure the acceleration of a physical pendulum.
We hope you’re as excited about the book, as we are order you soon and start exploring with us. .