Maclaurin series

There are 6 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Maclaurin series

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Trig reps

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Can you deduce the familiar properties of the sine and cosine functions starting from these three different mathematical representations?

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Bessel's equation

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Get further into power series using the fascinating Bessel's equation.

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Taking trigonometry series-ly

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Look at the advanced way of viewing sin and cos through their power series.

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Building approximations for sin(x)

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Build up the concept of the Taylor series

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What do functions do for tiny x?

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Looking at small values of functions. Motivating the existence of the Taylor expansion.

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Towards Maclaurin

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Build series for the sine and cosine functions by adding one term at a time, alternately making the approximation too big then too small but getting ever closer.

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Maclaurin series

Trig reps

Bessel's equation

Taking trigonometry series-ly

Building approximations for sin(x)

What do functions do for tiny x?

Towards Maclaurin