Non-Linear Functions : Part 1 (Introduction)

Hello and welcome. This is a
presentation of non linear functions.

And I have developed this as a public
class at the Licium in December of 2014

but had not recorded it back then.

So, I'm recording it as a screen cast so
that I can upload it

on to you tube and I can make it even
more available.

This is the first time that I am doing
this converting my class

into a screen cast so I would appreciate
your feedback.

This presentation is on non linear
functions.

Non linear functions are models,
mathematical models of

physical phenomena that we
often encounter

However, unlike linear functions they are
a little more harder to analyze and

predict. The behavior is harder to
predict.

In many circumstances when we try to model
physical phenomena we see that

higher order terms have very very small
coefficients.

So we just ignore them but those small
terms can actually affect

the behavior of functions in certain
circumstances.

So this presentation is going to be an
introduction to these types of

functions and how they behave and what
you can do with them.

So to start off with lets just do a quick
recap.

A recap of basic ideas which I know many
of you may already be familiar with

If you already know about all this you can
skip this and go to the next

The basic ideas we are going to discuss
are functions.

What are functions? Functions are
mathematical concepts which we use to

describe how elements of one set change
intoelements of another set.

For example I can say F of x equal to
x squared.

Which is a function that is squared and
simpled.

Or you can say F of x equal to sine of x