Calculus unraveled (part 2): Understand integral calculus with Python

Deepen your understanding of integral calculus and its practical applications in fields like physics, data science, and engineering.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Classical topics like Riemann sums, u-substitution, integration by parts, and more

Python Integration

Visualize and implement concepts using Python libraries such as NumPy, SymPy, and Matplotlib

Real-World Applications

Explore applications like computing arc lengths, surface areas, and probability distributions

About the Course

If Calculus 1 was about understanding change, then Calculus 2 is about accumulation: how small changes stack up to build area, volume, probability, and complexity. Integration is where mathematics meets imagination — it's where the abstract and the physical merge. From Riemann sums to probability distributions, from arc lengths to solids of revolution, integral calculus provides the tools to describe, quantify, and visualize everything from the motion of particles to the structure of data. It’s a gateway to multivariable calculus, mathematical modeling, and data science. And it's not just a theoretical subject. Integration is foundational to fields including physics, engineering, machine learning, quantitative finance, and statistics. If you want to understand the algorithms behind data science or build the mathematical foundation needed for AI, you need to understand integrals. Well, you could learn integration by watching a lecture filled with blackboard equations and hoping it sinks in. Or you could take a more interactive, hands-on approach. This course follows the principle that “you can learn a lot of math with a bit of coding.” You'll use Python — especially NumPy, SymPy, and Matplotlib — to visualize integrals, implement numerical approximations, explore convergence, and gain intuition for the fundamental ideas of calculus.

Meet Your Instructor

I am a full-time educator and writer, and former professor of neuroscience. I "retired" from my tenured job so I could focus my time and energy creating high-quality educational material just for you. I have 20 years of experience teaching coding, data analysis, signal processing, statistics, and math. I've taught undergraduate students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and full professors. I have taught in "traditional" university courses, special week-long intensive courses, and Nobel prize-winning research labs. So trust me when I say that that you've come to the right place to maximize your learning from an instructor who has spent two decades refining and perfecting his teaching style. Over 300,000 students have watched over 50,000,000 minutes of my courses. Come find out why!

Curriculum

14 Chapters · 94 Lessons

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1. Downloading and using the code Free preview
2. Prerequisites and how to rock this course Free preview
3. About the "CodeChallenge" videos Free preview
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  My policy on sharing code
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  Use ChatGPT to learn calculus
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  Section summary and goals
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  Integration as "inverse differentiation"
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  CodeChallenge: Drawing discrete integrals
4. Integration as geometric area Free preview
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  CodeChallenge: Geometric approximations
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  The dual perspectives of integration
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  The fundamental theorem of calculus, Part 1
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  The fundamental theorem of calculus, Part 2
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  CodeChallenge: Approximate exact integrals 1/2
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  CodeChallenge: Approximate exact integrals 2/2
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  Why integration is harder than differentiation
12. Calculart! Fun and beauty with calculus :) Free preview
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  How much of math reflects reality?
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1. Section summary and goals Free preview
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  Riemann sums
3. CodeChallenge: Riemann approximations 1/2 Free preview
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  CodeChallenge: Riemann approximations 2/2
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  Net vs. total area
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  CodeChallenge: Net and total area
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  Lebesgue integration
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  CodeChallenge: Lebesgue in Blefuscu 1/2
9. CodeChallenge: Lebesgue in Blefuscu 2/2 Free preview
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  Calculart! Riemannesque animations
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  Pros and cons of edutainment
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1. Section summary and goals Free preview
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  How to integrate (formally and practically)
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  Integrating polynomials
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  More on sympy integration
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  Constant of integration: What's with the C?
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  Integration constants in Python
7. CodeChallenge: Code the initial value problem Free preview
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  CodeChallenge: infinite practice problems
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  Linearity of integration
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  CodeChallenge: Explore linearity 1/2
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  CodeChallenge: Explore linearity 2/2
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  Numerical integration in scipy
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  Integrating sine and cosine
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  Transcendental functions (exp and log)
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  What about product, quotient, and chain rules?
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  Calculart! Whispy sine lines
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  Calculating net and total area
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  CodeChallenge: Net and total areas algorithm
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  Integrating even and odd functions
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  Create practice problems with ChatGPT
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  Reversing the limits of integration
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  Calculart! Create "music" from equations
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  Mathematical epistomology
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1. Section summary and goals Free preview
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  What are improper integrals?
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  Infinite intervals
4. CodeChallenge: Convergence and divergence Free preview
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  Two infinite bounds
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  CodeChallenge: Improper trig integrals
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  Functions with discontinuities
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  CodeChallenge: approaching real infinity
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1. Section summary and goals Free preview
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  U-substitution
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  Integration by parts
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  Partial fractions
5. CodeChallenge: Partial fractions algorithm Free preview
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  ChatGPT as your integration tutor
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  CodeChallenge: Fun with functions
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  The good life, according to calculus
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1. Section summary and goals Free preview
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  Area between two curves
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  CodeChallenge: Numerical approximations
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  Calculart: A vase, two faces, or just math?
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  Parametric curves
6. Curve (arc) length: theory Free preview
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  Curve (arc) length: practice (Python)
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  CodeChallenge: approximating curve lengths
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  Calculart: Lissajous's hypotrochoids
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  Creating solids of revolution
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  Measuring volumes of solids
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  Measuring surfaces of solids
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  CodeChallenge: Approximating volumes and surfaces
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1. Section summary and goals Free preview
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  Probability density functions (pdfs)
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  CodeChallenge: Creating pdfs
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  Cumulative distribution functions (cdfs)
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  CodeChallenge: cdfs and pdfs
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  Calculating probabilities
7. CodeChallenge: Calculating probabilities in python Free preview
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  Why learn math if you'll forget it?
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1. Section summary and goals Free preview
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  Multivariable indefinite integrals
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  CodeChallenge: partial and double integrals
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  Multivariable definite integrals
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  CodeChallenge: numerical double integrals

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