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Archimedes: the area under a parabola

Archimedes: the area under a parabola

In this video, Francis introduces the exhaustion method to find the area of a shape by inscribing inside it a sequence of rectangles.

You can access a copy of the slides used in the video in the PDF file at the bottom of this step.

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Advanced Precalculus: Geometry, Trigonometry and Exponentials

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