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#### Integration by Parts

Integration by Parts
Examples
Integration by Parts with a definite integral
Going in Circles

#### Integrals of Trig Functions

Antiderivatives of Basic Trigonometric Functions
Product of Sines and Cosines (mixed even and odd powers or only odd powers)
Product of Sines and Cosines (only even powers)
Product of Secants and Tangents
Other Cases

#### Trig Substitutions

How Trig Substitution Works
Summary of trig substitution options
Examples
Completing the Square

#### Partial Fractions

Introduction to Partial Fractions
Linear Factors
Improper Rational Functions and Long Division
Summary

#### Strategies of Integration

Substitution
Integration by Parts
Trig Integrals
Trig Substitutions
Partial Fractions

#### Improper Integrals

Type 1 - Improper Integrals with Infinite Intervals of Integration
Type 2 - Improper Integrals with Discontinuous Integrands
Comparison Tests for Convergence

#### Modeling with Differential Equations

Introduction
Separable Equations
A Second Order Problem

#### Euler's Method and Direction Fields

Direction Fields
Euler's method revisited

#### Separable Equations

The Simplest Differential Equations
Separable differential equations
Mixing and Dilution

#### Models of Growth

Exponential Growth and Decay
The Zombie Apocalypse (Logistic Growth)

#### Linear Equations

Linear ODEs: Working an Example
The Solution in General
Saving for Retirement

#### Parametrized Curves

Three kinds of functions, three kinds of curves
The Cycloid
Visualizing Parametrized Curves
Tracing Circles and Ellipses
Lissajous Figures

#### Calculus with Parametrized Curves

Video: Slope and Area
Video: Arclength and Surface Area
Summary and Simplifications
Higher Derivatives

#### Polar Coordinates

Definitions of Polar Coordinates
Graphing polar functions
Video: Computing Slopes of Tangent Lines

#### Areas and Lengths of Polar Curves

Area Inside a Polar Curve
Area Between Polar Curves
Arc Length of Polar Curves

#### Conic sections

Slicing a Cone
Ellipses
Hyperbolas
Parabolas and Directrices
Shifting the Center by Completing the Square

#### Conic Sections in Polar Coordinates

Foci and Directrices
Visualizing Eccentricity
Astronomy and Equations in Polar Coordinates

#### Infinite Sequences

Examples of Infinite Sequences
Limit Laws for Sequences
Theorems for and Examples of Computing Limits of Sequences
Monotonic Covergence

#### Infinite Series

Introduction
Geometric Series
Limit Laws for Series
Test for Divergence and Other Theorems
Telescoping Sums

#### Integral Test

Preview of Coming Attractions
The Integral Test
Estimates for the Value of the Series

#### Comparison Tests

The Basic Comparison Test
The Limit Comparison Test

#### Convergence of Series with Negative Terms

Introduction, Alternating Series,and the AS Test
Absolute Convergence
Rearrangements

The Ratio Test
The Root Test
Examples

#### Strategies for testing Series

Strategy to Test Series and a Review of Tests
Examples, Part 1
Examples, Part 2

#### Power Series

Finding the Interval of Convergence
Power Series Centered at $x=a$

#### Representing Functions as Power Series

Functions as Power Series
Derivatives and Integrals of Power Series
Applications and Examples

#### Taylor and Maclaurin Series

The Formula for Taylor Series
Taylor Series for Common Functions
Adding, Multiplying, and Dividing Power Series
Miscellaneous Useful Facts

#### Applications of Taylor Polynomials

Taylor Polynomials
When Functions Are Equal to Their Taylor Series
When a Function Does Not Equal Its Taylor Series
Other Uses of Taylor Polynomials

#### Functions of 2 and 3 variables

Functions of several variables
Limits and continuity

#### Partial Derivatives

One variable at a time (yet again)
Definitions and Examples
An Example from DNA
Geometry of partial derivatives
Higher Derivatives
Differentials and Taylor Expansions

#### Differentiability and the Chain Rule

Differentiability
The First Case of the Chain Rule
Chain Rule, General Case
Video: Worked problems

#### Multiple Integrals

General Setup and Review of 1D Integrals
What is a Double Integral?
Volumes as Double Integrals

#### Iterated Integrals over Rectangles

How To Compute Iterated Integrals
Examples of Iterated Integrals
Fubini's Theorem
Summary and an Important Example

#### Double Integrals over General Regions

Type I and Type II regions
Examples 1-4
Examples 5-7
Swapping the Order of Integration
Area and Volume Revisited

#### Double integrals in polar coordinates

dA = r dr (d theta)
Examples

#### Multiple integrals in physics

Double integrals in physics
Triple integrals in physics

#### Integrals in Probability and Statistics

Single integrals in probability
Double integrals in probability

#### Change of Variables

Review: Change of variables in 1 dimension
Mappings in 2 dimensions
Jacobians
Examples
Bonus: Cylindrical and spherical coordinates

### The Root Test

The Root Test involves looking at $\displaystyle\lim_{n\to\infty}\sqrt[n]{\left|a_n\right|}$, hence the name.

Notice:  $\displaystyle\sqrt[n]{\left|a_n\right|}=\left|a_n\right|^{1/n}$, and you will see both notations.

The Root Test, like the Ratio Test, is a test to determine absolute convergence (or not).  While the Ratio Test is good to use with factorials, since there is that lovely cancellation of terms of factorials when you look at ratios, the Root Test is best used when there are terms to the $n^{th}$ power with no factorials.

 The Root Test:  Suppose that $\displaystyle\lim_{n \to \infty}\sqrt[n]{\left|a_n\right|}=L$. If $L<1$, then $\sum a_n$ converges absolutely. If $L>1$, or the limit goes to $\infty$, then $\sum a_n$ diverges. If $L=1$, or $L$ does not exist, then the test is inconclusive and we say the Ratio Test fails.  We must do more work to determine convergence,

Example:  Test the absolute/conditional convergence of the series $\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^\infty(-1)^n\left(\frac{2n-7}{5n+2}\right)^n$.

Solution:  We run through our tests:  Is this a geometric series?  No, we have a function raised to the $n^{th}$ power, not a number (but we get a glimmer of something here, right?).  Our terms are alternating, but the AST will not tell us whether or not we have absolute convergence.  We don't want to think about integrating this expression.  We could use the Ratio Test, but since our terms are raised to the $n^{th}$ power, we decide to try the Root Test.  You will see how nicely it works with powers:
As $n\to\infty$, $\displaystyle\sqrt[n]{\left|a_n\right|}=\sqrt[n]{\left(\frac{2n-7}{5n+2}\right)^n}=\frac{2n-7}{5n+2}=\frac{2-\frac7n}{5+\frac2n}\longrightarrow\frac25$.  Since $\frac25<1$, our series converges absolutely.

It is important to consider our litany of convergence/divergence tests before doing work.  It can save valuable time, as well as helping you begin to recognize which test to do when.  On an exam, you will not know which module the series came from!

#### An important limit you may need in order to use the Root Test

You may have to compute the limit of sequences like $\sqrt[n]n$ or $\lim\sqrt[n]{n^2}$.  Let's compute this now, so we can use it later.  Let $a$ be a positive real number.   First notice that $\displaystyle\lim_{n\to\infty}\sqrt[n]{n^a}=\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(n^a\right)^{1/n}=\lim_{n\to\infty}n^{a/n}$ looks like the indeterminate form $\infty^0$, so it can best be computed by computing the limit of the logarithm of this expression.  We will use the function with continuous variable $x$ so that we can take derivatives using l'Hospital's Rule.

$\displaystyle\lim_{x\to\infty}\ln\left(x^{a/x}\right)=\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac ax\cdot\ln x \underset{\,\\ 0\cdot\infty}{=}\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{\ln x}{\frac xa}\underset{ \,\\ \frac{\infty}{\infty},\text{ l'H}}{=}\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{\frac 1x}{\frac 1a}=\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac ax=0$,
so $\displaystyle\lim_{x\to\infty}x^{a/x}=e^0=1$.  We have shown:

 A Handy Limit For any positive real number $a$, $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\sqrt[n]{n^a}=\lim_{n\to\infty}n^{a/n}=1.$$

#### Justification of the Root Test

Notice that we can think of the relationship of $\sqrt[n]{\left|a_n\right|}$ to the terms of a geometric series, since $\sqrt[n]{r^n} = r$.  The video gives a justification, using this idea, of why the Root Test works.