Sunday, June 29, 2014

Mathematical integration without calculus


I show how to convert an area measurement problem into a mass measurement problem that is easier to solve.  In general, this idea of converting measurement problems into different spaces is very powerful, and may prove useful in the future.

4 comments:

  1. That was pretty cool,I've never been much of a math guy but that seemed quite straight forward.Thanks for the quick lesson.

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  2. Might something like a hole punch produce more consistent sized pieces for figuring out the variation of paper mass per area? (using your new scale)

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  3. This is assuming very even density of the paper though.

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  4. This is how chromatography integration was done 50 years ago. I can send you papers if you are interested

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