Name: TaylorSeries: Approximating the Morse Potential @sspickle
Uploaded: 2014-01-26T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: Intro to Taylor Series as a method of approximating functions over a limited domain. Intro to sympy. Pre-class slides for Scientific Computing by Steve Spicklemire. (Note, at around 19:27 the video shows alpha with incorrect units. alpha has units of 1/length (e.g., per angstrom))

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Uploaded March 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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