Calculus II ep21: Arclength (Oct 22, 2024)

This is a recording of a live class for Math 1172, Calculus 2, an undergraduate course for non-technical majors at Fairfield University, Fall 2024. Following Stewart's Calculus book.

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16:35 (hiking and distance measurement by apps) The way they actually work with timed intervals aside, this seems like one that should be reasonably measurable (with an error range), since every step taken is from a specific position to another specific position, and the nature of your hiking motion is one that even if not linear, does have a limit in the distance traveled between those two points. The exact positions of those points can be refined, but the distance between them when calculated would not go to infinity as the positions and trajectory remain static.

I think