Postby Technomancer » Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:04 pm
Is it imperative that you use the TI calculator? Could you do the integration some other way (eg. Riemann sum, etc), or could you write a simple BASIC program? You can also check your answer by calculating the definite integral of f(x). Hint: remember that d/dx [x^a]=(a)*x^(a-1), where a is not necessarily an integer.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
