Vector Kinematics
Intervals and Errors
How to Do Word Problems
Shakespeare Quotes
Mrs. Finander's vehicles
100

They are the unit vectors for the Cartesian x, y, and z, in that order.

What are i-hat, j-hat, and k-hat?

100

They are the two endpoints of the interval 

abs(x+7)=12

What are 19 and -5?

100

Estimating a rate of change from a data table.

What is Average rate of change used for?

100

Hamlet:  "To be, or not to be.  That is the..."

What is "question"?

100

The status of the green 2022 Prius?

What is it total loss due to a crash?

200

It's what you have to do to a vector position function in three dimensions to find the velocity vector function.

What is taking all three derivatives and leaving the unit vectors there?

200

It's the radius of convergence of the series 

sum_(n=0)^infty(x-3)^n/5^(n+1)

What is 5?

200

Estimating the total amount of something from a data table about its rate of change.

What is a Riemann sum used for?

200

Romeo and Juliet:  "A rose by any other name would smell as..."

What is "sweet"?

200

The status of the 2024 Prius

Natalie is driving it in Washington

300

It's how you calculate the distance from the origin.

What is using Pythagorean Theorem on the components of the position function?

300

For the error bound of a Taylor Series, it's what determines where the center of the error-bound interval is.

What is the place where the series was written?

300

Finding the maximum or minimum value of something on a closed interval.

When do you use the Extreme Value Theorem?

300

Macbeth "Double, double, toil and..."

What is "trouble"?

300

The status of the grey 2010 Prius.

What is Mrs. Finander drives it every day?

400

It's how you find the speed.

What is using Pythagorean Theorem on the velocity vector?

400

For the error in an alternating series, it's what determines the RADIUS of the interval.

What is the value of the first unused term?

400

Finding how fast the radius of a sphere is growing when you how how the volume is changing.

What is related rates?

400

Julius Caesar "Friends, Romans, Countrymen/Lend me your..."

What is "ears"?

400

The 1969 silver Camaro convertible

Mrs. Finander's former brother-in-law has it.

500

Everything you need to do to find the magnitude of the acceleration at a certain time starting from the position function.

What is differentiate twice, plug the number in, and use Pythagorean Theorem?

500

It's what we use in the Lagrange Error Bound instead of the value of the relevant derivative at the center of the interval.

What is the largest that the relevant derivative can be in that neighborhood?

500
Estimating the propagated error (how much an uncertainty of radius would affect the calculated surface area).
What is differentials?
500

Richard III:  "Now is the winter of our..."

What is "discontent"?

500

The total number of cars that Mrs. Finander has owned or sort-of owned.

What is 9?