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Historical Activities for the Calculus Classroom

Author:
gabriela sanchis
Topic:
Calculus
Historical Activities for the Calculus Classroom

Table of Contents

  • Curve Drawing Then and Now

    • Van Schooten's Parabola Drawer
    • Ellipse String Construction
    • Ellipse String Construction
    • Ellipse Van Schooten Construction
    • Proclus' Ellipse Construction
    • Drawing an Ellipse using Archimedes' Trammel
  • Tangent Lines Then and Now

    • Apollonius' Construction of Tangent to Parabola
    • Apollonius' Construction of Tangents to Ellipses
    • Apollonius' Construction of Tangents to Ellipses
    • Apollonius' method for constructing tangent lines to conics
    • Constructing tangent line to parabola with Roberval's Method
    • Constructing tangent line to ellipse with Roberval's Method
    • Tangent line to hyperbola using Roberval's Method
    • Tangent line of cycloid using Roberval's method
    • Constructing tangent lines to Epicycloids
    • Descartes' Method of Tangents
  • Optimization Problems Then and Now

    • Heron's Shortest Path Problem
    • Euclid's Law of Reflection
    • L'Hopital's Pulley Problem
    • Regiomontanus' Hanging Picture Problem
    • The Brachistochrone Problem
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Van Schooten's Parabola Drawer

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