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Course Summary
Learn everything you need to know to get through Sequences & Series and prepare you to go into Calculus 3 with a solid understanding of what’s going on. Video explanations, text notes, and quiz questions that won’t affect your class grade help you “get it” in a way most textbooks never explain.
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Course outline
The curriculum includes:
Introduction to sequences
Sequences vs. series
Listing the first terms
Calculating the first terms
Formula for the general term
Convergence of a sequence
Limit of a convergent sequence
Increasing, decreasing, and not monotonic
Bounded sequences
Partial sums
Calculating the first terms of a series of partial sums
Sum of the series of partial sums
Geometric series
Geometric series test
Sum of the series
Values for which the series converges
Repeating decimals
Telescoping series
Convergence
Sum of the series
Basic convergence tests
Recognizing types of series
Limit vs. sum of the series
Integral test
p-series test
nth term test (aka divergence test, zero test)
Comparison tests
Comparison test
Limit comparison test
Error of a series (remainder of a series)
Ratio and root tests
Ratio test
Ratio test with factorials
Root test
Absolute and conditional convergence
Alternating series test
Alternating series test
Alternating series estimation theorem
Power series
Power series representation
Power series multiplication and division
Power series differentiation
Radius of convergence, interval of convergence
Estimating definite integrals, estimating indefinite integrals
Binomial series
Taylor series
Taylor series
Radius of a Taylor series, interval of convergence of a Taylor series
Taylor's inequality
Maclaurin series
Maclaurin series
Sum of a Maclaurin series
Radius of a Maclaurin series, interval of convergence of a Maclaurin series
Evaluating indefinite integrals as an infinite series
Estimating indefinite integrals
Estimating definite integrals
Evaluating limits
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