James Stewart-Calculus_ Early Transcendentals-Cengage Learning (2015)

Writing project Newton, Leibniz, and the Invention of Calculus 411
of water that flowed into Lake Lanier from July 18th, 2013, at
7:30 am to July 26th at 7:30 am.
Inflow rate
Day sft 3 ysd
July 18 5275
July 19 6401
July 20 2554
July 21 4249
July 22 3016
July 23 3821
July 24 2462
July 25 2628
July 26 3003
71. A bacteria population is 4000 at time t − 0 and its rate of
growth is 1000 ? 2 t bacteria per hour after t hours. What is the
population after one hour?
72. Shown is the graph of traffic on an Internet service provider’s
T1 data line from midnight to 8:00 am. D is the data throughput,
measured in megabits per second. Use the Midpoint Rule
to estimate the total amount of data transmitted during that
time period.
D
0.8
0.4
0
2 4 6 8 t (hours)
;
73. Shown is the power consumption in the province of
Ontario, Canada, for December 9, 2004 (P is measured in
megawatts; t is measured in hours starting at midnight).
Using the fact that power is the rate of change of energy,
estimate the energy used on that day.
P
22,000
20,000
18,000
16,000
0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 t
Independent Electricity Market Operator
74. On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour was launched
on mission STS-49, the purpose of which was to install a
new perigee kick motor in an Intelsat communications satellite.
The table gives the velocity data for the shuttle between
liftoff and the jettisoning of the solid rocket boosters.
(a) Use a graphing calculator or computer to model these
data by a third-degree polynomial.
(b) Use the model in part (a) to estimate the height reached
by the Endeavour, 125 seconds after liftoff.
Event Time (s) Velocity sftysd
Launch 0 0
Begin roll maneuver 10 185
End roll maneuver 15 319
Throttle to 89% 20 447
Throttle to 67% 32 742
Throttle to 104% 59 1325
Maximum dynamic pressure 62 1445
Solid rocket booster separation 125 4151
writing Project
Newton, leibniz, and the invention of calculus
We sometimes read that the inventors of calculus were Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) and Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 –1716). But we know that the basic ideas behind integration were
investigated 2500 years ago by ancient Greeks such as Eudoxus and Archimedes, and methods
for finding tangents were pioneered by Pierre Fermat (1601–1665), Isaac Barrow (1630 –1677),
and others. Barrow––who taught at Cambridge and was a major influence on Newton––was the
first to understand the inverse relationship between differentiation and integration. What Newton
and Leibniz did was to use this relationship, in the form of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus,
in order to develop calculus into a systematic mathematical discipline. It is in this sense that
Newton and Leibniz are credited with the invention of calculus.
Read about the contributions of these men in one or more of the given references and write
a report on one of the following three topics. You can include biographical details, but the main
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