Integration

The second part of calculus is simply about finding the area under a curve. Pre-calculus mathematics accomplished this by breaking an unknown area into parts whose area they could calculate. for example, a surface like a bell curve can be approximated by drawing small rectangles along it. the smaller the rectangles, the more accurate the approximation will be. Newton and Liebniz both discovered that you can use calculus to solve these approximations for an infinite degree of accuracy. Using integral calculus, it is possible to continue making the rectangles so small, they can calculate the area under a curve to total accuracy.

An integral is a set of rectangles from one given point, to a second given point on a graph, underneath a known curve (an equation of a line). I will finish editing this later.

A Year of Excitement

Wow, packed summer ahead much?

The Hobbit Desolation of Smaug         December 15th, 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness                      May 16th, 2013
Ender's Game                                     November 1st, 2013
The Lone Ranger                                July 3rd, 2013
World War Z                                     June 21st, 2013
Superman, Man of Steel                     June 14th, 2013
Elysium                                              August 9th, 2013
Fast and Furious 6                             May 24th, 2013
Wolverine                                          July 26th, 2013
Oblivion                                             Now Playing
Despicable Me 2                                July 3rd, 2013

Bilbo for president!

Throughout our history, we have had 44 presidents. For fun, I have listed them below:
18th Century
George Washington,
19th Century
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley.

A brief introduction to advanced mathematics

Calculus is a scary word. As a high school senior, I dropped out of AP Calculus after the first semester. However, I later took Calculus I, II, III, and IV in College. I will begin by listing some prerequisites to Calculus I, followed by a brief introduction to Calculus I (called Differential Calculus).


Prerequisites:
At least one year of algebra is required
One year of stats is helpful but not required
One year of physics is helpful, but if you have not taken physics, then this will help you there too!

Grey Days

Sometimes, a day just is grey. You curl up on the grass near your kennel and it starts to rain. Woof, and now no sunbeam to fall asleep to. However, in these days, some ray of sunshine always manages to shine through. My masters fed me hot chocolate this morning, and brought me to work with them. :) We didnt' play catch, but I got to ride in the car for a few errends. Besides that, I hear a party of some form is going on this weekend. And partys are always fun.

In other news, the hobbit is coming out in december (you know, that time of the year when humans bring big pine trees into their houses, and fluffy white stuff blankets all around). I hear it will be a really good movie, with lots of dwarfs and hobbits! I know my master considers himself a hobbit at times, so he should be really excited! woof! Squirrel! Oh there I go again, getting distracted. I began reading master's book yesterday about hobbits, and it is quite intriging. Not to say I haven't read it before, but I never noticed the Dwarf song continuing throughout the novel. If you look up the song misty mountains cold, you will find a singer by the name of shadowca7 who sings all 20+ verses. Its quite haunting, and beautiful.

Woof for now,

clouds (not to be confused with clowns)

As i wake up and roll over to what used to be eggshell blue sky, this morning there is a thick blanket of clouds all around. Although the nights are warmer, the days have cooled off by a solid 15 degrees. The wind is slightly blowing, waving the leaves on the trees as if saying good morning to all around. I suppose clouds are a necessary part of the Oregon skyline, but I do hope they burn off soon. I have a pool to get to.

In other news, I would like to test some ideas in regards to a scene for the upcoming murder mystery night.

The scene:

picture a large yacht, with a dinner party aboard. Guests have arrived to enjoy a wonderful evening of a cruise. Dates invited, and encouraged. cocktails, and fancy food all in abundance. At the stroke of 10:00pm, a luscious diamond will be presented, and auctioned off to one of the guests.

memory

I'm losing my mind! Ack! Yip, yip. I seem to be spending so much time learning at work, and in memorizing things, that I am always forgetting things. Ask Katie, I seem to forget anything that's not nailed down. :P Yet on the other hand, I can quote entire sections of movies (such as below) without a quip.

"In many ways the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer their work to our judgment.We thrive on negative criticism which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that the average piece of junk is probably worth more than our criticism designating it so. There are times when a critic risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talents, new creations. The new needs friends.

Glass

Yip Yip! Welcome to something dogs run into if it is too shiny or see through. Cats often run into glass as well, hehehe.

Well, glass is said to be a liquid, and is now classified as a solid again, (them sciency people have an even harder time making up their minds than us dogs!).

However, I hear that large search engine (google) has made some glasses with no glass. Confused? It's a new pair of glasses which have a small camera and microphone attached to them. They record movements and sounds from a persons point of view.

Atom

Woof! Woof! Woof! How many atoms did it take to write this sentence?

IBM just made the world's smallest movie, using only about 100 individual atoms to create a simple picture of a boy playing with an atom. In terms of movie storage, using new technology, it may be possible that an iPhone could hold enough data to hold every movie ever produced.