Monthly Archive: May 2011

Differentiation Applications 0

Differentiation Applications

Applications of differentiation take advantage of the stationary points calculations. And below I shall be showing such differentiation applications. There are three types of stationary points as you must know, these are the maximum, minimum and...

Simpson's Rule 3

Simpson's Rule

Before attempting this reading it would be a good idea to learn the trapezium rule here, because I won’t go so much into details about the logic behind. I will concentrate more on how...

Odd and Even numbers 0

Odd and Even numbers

Even numbers are numbers which can be divided evenly by 2. For example the number 8 can be divided into two numbers (4) Odd numbers are numbers which cannot be divided evenly by two....

Area of a Triangle 0

Area of a Triangle

A triangle is a three sided 2-dimensional polygon. If you would like to find the area of a triangle you could use the following area of the triangle formula.

Area of an ellipse 0

Area of an ellipse

You might want to find the area of an ellipse in maths. The area of an ellipse can be found by using the following area of an ellipse formula. where b is the distance...

Trapezium rule 4

Trapezium rule

The trapezium rule is a method of finding the approximate value of the value of an integral between certain limits. In other words the trapezium rule is a way of calculating the area under...

Area of a Square 0

Area of a Square

The area of a square is given by: A = length x width but because the sides of a square are similar each the area is usually written like below: where w is the...

Integration 1

Integration

Before attempting this topic you must have some prior knowledge of differentiation. Integration is an important concept in mathematics and is seen in maney applications. Integration and differentiation operations are a major part in...

Area of a Rectangle 0

Area of a Rectangle

The area of a rectangle can be expressed in the following equation or formula. where w is the width and l is the length… The above formula can be used to find areas for...

Area of a Circle 1

Area of a Circle

A circle is a geometric shape which has a radius or diameter, this kind of shape has been shown below. The following formula is the formula which can be used to find the area...