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Math is the language of physics, and there's one formula that you'll encounter time and again in your study of physics: the Taylor series. Get the notes for free here: courses.physicswithelliot.com...
If I had to name one mathematical theorem that's the most essential for understanding physics, it would be Taylor's formula. It shows up in virtually everything we do in physics. In this video, I'll teach you the basics of Taylor series, and show you a few applications in different corners of physics. In the first part, we'll go through the math, including how to write Taylor's formula in a particularly beautiful way that also makes the generalization to the multi-variable case straightforward. In the second half, we'll look at three physics applications. First, we'll discuss how to linearize complicated F = ma equations to simplify them in special limits. Then we'll learn to take the non-relativistic limit of Einstein's energy formula, and see how it's related to the fine-structure correction to the binding energy of a hydrogen atom. And third we'll look at the definition of the momentum operator in quantum mechanics.
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@whovikrantsingh 2 года назад

I'm a Physics Major Undergraduate student, and I can say that this is the best video on Taylor Series that I've seen on RU-vid. This explanation stands out!

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

So glad to hear, Vikrant!

@abhisheksoni9774 Год назад

Hey, from which university?

@whovikrantsingh Год назад

@@abhisheksoni9774 St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad

@pingpong_ Год назад

@@PhysicswithElliot Hello Elliot, why do we need to express Taylor Series into something with exp(ε*d/dx), if we still take sum of derivations for solving Taylor Series?

@visheshkashyap8517 Год назад

Me who has nothing to do with this still this video came when i searched for taylor swifts song love story.

@Phi1618033 Год назад

When I first studied calculus, and I got to the chapter on Taylor series, I thought, "What heck is this and why am I learning it?" But all these many years later I am now asking myself, "Why don't teachers emphasize that pretty much every non-linear equation in every field that uses mathematical models (physics, engineering, economics, computer science, etc.) is calculated via its Taylor expansion, so that students understand how important and useful it is?"

@rotondabooden7475 3 месяца назад

Hello everyone I'm just tuning into this channel trying to get ready for my MCAT exam and boy let me tell you that I'm a little lost😢

@joelcurtis562 2 года назад

Honestly, every physics course should open with a whole lecture on Taylor series approximation. We literally could not do physics as we know it without it! Instead, it's one of those topics that is hugely important but somehow gets overlooked in early education. At least it was for me. Anyway, great video. I especially like the clarification about the momentum operator as generator of translations really just being a case of Taylor expansion. It is usually presented far less clearly, so that connection isn't obvious.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Glad it helped Joel!

@jaw0449 2 года назад

Every physics class I had from undergrad to grad had a brief overview of Taylor Series somewhere along the way

@abhishankpaul 6 месяцев назад

We had 2-3 lectures on Taylor and McLaurin series when we started off. We were asked to remember all the things said and the method to use them till our de@th.

@ShadowZZZ 2 года назад

Wow that was beautiful. I already knew the Taylor series, how it's used to show that einstein relativistic energy can boil down to classical kinetic energy, and how it's used to make physics problems easier by approximations like small angle in pendulums, but I didn't how you can formulate it in such a short way like f(x+ε)=exp(ε*d/dx)f(x). I have also always wondered why the momentum operator in QM is exactly the way it is, even though I've used it a lot in calculations, so thank you.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Shadow!

@anonymousl5150 2 года назад

Einstein was not responsible for the formula, in fact all his papers on mass equivalence were wrong.

@theseusswore День назад

ive always loved math. my dad taught me to love math as a chore but he didnt expect me to internalize it, for some reason. i asked him why, he said that "it'll be useful for understanding higher physics when you prep for difficult exams concerning physics and maths". i never understood his logic until now. i feel like i can love physics the same way i do maths, for the first time. im grateful for this channel. thank you. such an incredible little gem. and thanks dad. you know next to nothing about science but simultaneously know everything. because true science is just writing stuff down for later, not knowing what it truly means.

@punditgi 2 года назад

Superb explanation. Absolutely brilliant! I'm another old man trying to learn new hard subjects before I shuffle off this mortal coil. Your videos are invaluable in helping me bridge the gap! 😃

@kwccoin3115 Год назад

Same here

@sirwinston2368 Год назад

Same here. I am 62 as of this writing. BSChE in the 80's. Hope to get a degree in physics when I retire in 21 months... so I'm trying to get a head start. I will need it. Great videos Elliot. Thank you. Wish we had RU-vid when I was in college.

@ull893 Год назад

@@sirwinston2368 best of luck❤️🙏✌️

@Trenz0 Год назад

I hated covering this section and the divergence theorem when I took calculus. These sorts of videos are beyond invaluable and I'm a little jealous of the students today. All this efficient learning can only propel humanity's understanding of the physical world

@sietsebuijsman8523 2 года назад

That was fascinating! I already knew about the translation operator exp(ε*d/dx), and why f(x + ε) = exp(ε*d/dx)f(x), but it never occurred to me that this could be used as a way to express the Taylor expansion in such a compact way. Thank you!

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Glad it helped Sietse!

@rickcarroll 2 года назад

What a great video lecture. I picked up so much stuff that made sense of a lot of my previous math's and physics reading. I am an elderly man who has time to relearn my old schooling and I am impressed by your approach on how to imparting knowledge at more than a general level. I love relearning and gaining new and very interesting facts about Math's and Physic's . Keep up this great work, there are many of us out here who just love this stuff. Cheers.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

I'm so glad it's helping, Rick!

@abhay_cs Год назад

Beautiful video. The Taylor expansion for sin(x) were actually known to medieval Indian mathematicians. Some now call it the Taylor-Madhava series, where Madhava is the Indian mathematician from the 14th Century. Almost 300 years before Newton.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

yes and Abraham Seidenberg proved the Indian scientists knew the Pythagorean Theorem thousands of years before Pythagoras! You gotta make those chariot wheels precise. haha.

@chilledvibes99 Год назад

I cant actually believe i have only just found this channel, easily the most clear description of hard concepts and smooth animation.

@ankidokolo 2 года назад

I always thought about Taylor's expansion as being a magnifying lens, the higher terms you use, the more detailed and closer to reality the view will be. These are really very nice and in-depth videos/lessons. Keep up the good work.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Ankido!

@wisnuape 2 года назад

Wow that's a great analogy, thanks !

@dwaynep6174 2 года назад

I'm a first year undergrad majoring in Physics and next semester I am taking my first physics class. Thank you for uploading these and giving me a taste of whats to come. I cannot wait to start and learn the nature of our universe

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Dwayne! Excited for you!

@BillFilson Год назад

Wonderful explanation. I'm going to watch this again. I will be pressing pause regularly to consolidate each step in the logic. More explanation is not needed, just a little time to think about each step. Thanks for the marvelous explanation of the mathematical derivatives of physical equations.

@davidharper1152 Год назад

OMG... I was trying to explain this issue about teaching Taylor Series to a Parent/friend at my son's school... Great Subject... Great Video

@sirwinston2368 4 месяца назад

I studied the Taylor series in calculus back in 1980 . In about 19 months I am headed back to my alma mater to get a degree in Physics (gotta have something to do in retirement). I have been watching a lot of videos and lectures to get prepped because it's been so long since I did anything with "upper-level" math. Your videos are great Dr. Schneider. I still want to see something about Dirac. Thank you. sw (BSChE, PE)

@asadwrites786 Год назад

The best explaination and derivation on earth

@sweetpotatoambassador 2 года назад

Great video as always, Elliot. The way that you simplify mysterious topics by pointing out deep connections to simpler ideas if amazing.

@sudheerbright Год назад

It brings me to tears when I watch something so beautiful.

@eyedontunderstand8326 Год назад

Love your channel Dr. Sneider! Please, continue to put up more. They are enjoyable, insightful, and a great resource for people who don't have the depth of knowledge of physics as you do. I would go as far to say that even for those that do, few are able to articulate their knowledge and understanding well to others, especially to those who are not at the same level of understanding. Thank you!

@rarichie3829 2 года назад

Great video as always! One of my favorite applications of Taylor's formula is in nonlinear optics, where one expands the optical response of a material in powers of the incoming electric field, leading to all sorts of interesting processes.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Interesting!

@thiennhantranle6682 Год назад

I just came across your channel and I was amazed by your content! Thanks for providing these such quality lectures.

@wisnuape 2 года назад

Great content as always. This is the first time i see such a compact formulation of Taylor series. Thanks !

@vaidyanath3098 Месяц назад

Amazing video, Elliot. I liked the way of explaining taylor series and its importance in physics.

@Jaylooker 8 месяцев назад

The compact formula of the Taylor series at 14:02 looks similar the generators S: z -> -1/z and T: z -> z + 1 of the modular group. The del operator formulation at 16:55 could also be considered in relation to Möbius transformations. A theta functions could be taken as the Taylor series expansion of a polynomial P(x) and its lattice with the standard basis be taken to be described by P(x). Note that every lattice can be assigned a theta function. This theta function would give a 1/2 weight modular form. Theta functions also satisfy transforms of Θ(z + 1, t) = Θ(z) and the very similar Θ(z + t, t) = exp(-2πiz) exp(-πit) Θ(z, t). Theta functions also happen to describe a wave functions in Chern-Simons theory though I don’t understand it that well.

@muhammadibrahim-nj3vy 5 месяцев назад

Omg this is very clear to understand. Thanks Elliot!

@BENJAM0IN 2 года назад

I´m learning QM right now and never saw this way of expressing Taylors´s formula, thanks for the video!

@anthonyheak3479 Год назад

Good explanation with a clear voice, awesome!

@dlrmfemilianolako8 2 года назад

Elliot this is beautiful ! Its the best way to transform a function to another function ( polonomyal ) that help us to derive or integrate it with more easy way

@penz1as Год назад

I've been hunting for a good, intuitive explanation of Taylor's formula. Goes without saying that this is the best that I have come across, but also, I ended up understanding so much more than just that. This is excellent stuff, so many "oh damn" moments.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

intuitive to me would be like the Fourier series - the more extensions you add then the more precise it fits the geometric function.

@brendanfan3245 2 года назад

it is just amazing! Thanks for your deep understanding of both physics and math!

@emilytownsend4983 Год назад

I have no idea how I got here. One minute I was watching videos of Patti lupone singing don’t cry for me Argentina. A few clicks later I landed here. 🤷‍♀️

@saudyassin5352 2 года назад

Superb video, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with such enthusiasm.

@MrOvipare 2 года назад

Very well put! I've been using Taylor series for years now, but your presentation was very insightful, especially the bit about the translation operator. Cheers!

@mathe.dominio4765 2 года назад

💙🙏

@mitrikoudsi8060 Год назад

Great video! Thank you so much Elliot!

@michaelbaum6796 Год назад

This is a beautiful video on Taylor Series. Thanks a lot👍

@eugenebroni3501 2 года назад

I'm enjoying this stuff..Thanks very much Elliot

@rei9843 День назад

It's funny how I just want to know the basic formulas for physics and now I'm learning this 😂. I had a calculus class but we were unfortunately unable to get to the taylor's series because of how hard it got. If our teacher wasn't as kind and nice to us, we will surely be learning this. Anyways thanks for the video!

@agapamebandikot9997 2 года назад

you are honestly so underrated! Your content is so useful for physics enthusiasts like myself

@charleshudson5330 2 года назад

Brilliant! Bravo! The best explanation and demo of Taylor I've ever seen. Especially graphic - searingly so - was the segment from 6:30 to 6:40. That said it all. (When I was a physics major, at Columbia, in the sixties, we didn't have videos at all - just a graph on a page full of equations. You had to use your imagination all the way down. P.S. The highlight of my physics career was an afternoon spent at lunch and in conversation with David Bohm, in London, when he was at Birkbeck U.)

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thank you Charles! I love how technology makes it possible to teach things in new ways!

@anAlokDubey 2 года назад

Finally I understood the basics of Taylor series. 😊 Thankyou

@Justasong55 10 месяцев назад

Besssssssssssssstttttttttttttttt video ever........i seen in my life on Tylor series...❤❤❤❤❤

@user-hh2mu5le2k 2 года назад

Hi Elliot, my name is Joseph. It’s incredible how you seem to make the exact videos I want at the right time. Please continue making these amazing videos and spread the physics! Thank you very much

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Glad it helped Joseph!

@gerardsagliocca6292 Год назад

Great insight into this darn difficult topics. We all appreciate this insight which eventually leads to stronger understanding of math and of physics. Greater understanding often leads to less memorization of a bunch of formulas and facts. My only tiny request/wish would be to somehow slow the speed down a tiny amount. It seems as if somebody is standing behind you prodding you to hurry up so you can finish faster due to some self imposed time requirement you or your producer may have. If I were your Film Director, I would find ways to slow you down a bit and take normal breaths. So that in the end , a better product would be produced so that general viewers/students could enjoy the experience more. Good luck on your goals in producing these valuable educational series. PS At this point, I am now reminded of coming across the Convolution integrals. They would have an asterisk between two functions and then the author(s) would assume every reader knew what this was about ! I have seen no textbook that has adequately explained this rather straightforward general idea but nobody ever shows in diagrams what is actually taking place and also they never tell you why people use it. When I read electrical engineering texts that contained Convolution verbiage, I also froze up because of that forbidden character somebody starting using, the asterisk inside of an integral setting. Hope you can assist in this..

@Infinium 2 года назад

Great video, very informative! Thanks :)

@lucidity910 Год назад

Great video. Thanks for making it.

@abhishankpaul 6 месяцев назад

Nice bootstrapping. We are using Taylor series expansion to compactly write the definition of Taylor series expansion

@astorina Год назад

Superb and respect for the deep work

@Quasar.Chaser 2 года назад

13:51 I'm in awe. Wow. Goodness me, absolutely mind blown

@nagymikhail5851 Год назад

Amazing ...love the way you linked the three subjects together... math is not a mental gymnastic far from physical reality after all...

@nashs.4206 2 года назад

This is an incredibly underrated channel. Amazing quality. Thank you Elliot :)

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Nash!

@Definitelynoone69 Год назад

This helped me a lot THANK YOU

@tumisomalema5301 Год назад

Thank you, this has been made simple.

@ThePiMan0903 Год назад

Thanks Elliot!

@lover123777 2 года назад

Superb video, thanks

@jaimeduncan6167 2 года назад

This basic series is great, very well made. I will made a suggestion for all the teachers: someone I normally do before going into proofs is do an example with a polynomial ,one student will invent the polynomial and give the derivatives evaluated on the point as requested and another will construct the Taylor series, it’s nice for the students to see that it will return exactly the secret polynomial. If they is no time , I can do it myself on the board.

@mathe.dominio4765 2 года назад

💙🙏

@deeper1993 Год назад

Very cool video. It would be nice to show next regarding the radius of convergence. Not all functions can be well approximated no matter how many derivatives are considered, for e.g. the logarithmic function.

@xuantruongduong8438 2 года назад

Perfect explanation!

@ssym2 2 года назад

Thanks Dr. Elliot!

@jatinsoni1979 2 года назад

As always What a great video lecture. I picked up so much stuff.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

So glad, Jatin!

@gok_dogan 6 месяцев назад

9:52 Yes Exactly I run into sin(x)=x for small angle approximation. After years I come across again and intuitive behind that approximation.

@nickwisely2581 2 года назад

Hi Elliot! I really enjoy your video very much! Honestly, I never saw the very compact notation of Taylor’s Series like you do. Even at First, I thought it will be just a fancier way to represent the Taylor Series. I’m waiting patiently until you explain how it correlates with the momentum operator in Quantum Physics. I must say that it’s very mind blowing. I never had this feeling before when I’m watching another physics or math video. I really enjoy the story very much. Please do more video about Physics and Math. Love to see your next video.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thank you Nick!

@meetghelani5222 2 года назад

This is priceless, thanks a lot!

@fireclub493 Год назад

Wow! Excellent video!

@JuanGonzalez-dy1jb 10 месяцев назад

Best explanation ever!

@owen7185 2 года назад

Another awesome video Elliott

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Brian!

@aritrabhattacharyya2374 Месяц назад

Awesome teaching sir ❤from India

@deepakjanardhanan7394 2 года назад

I have been waiting for a long time. I used to check daily for your new uploads.😊

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

This one was really a 2-for-1!

@Bhuvan_MS Год назад

11:00 so that's how e^x formula is derived. I have seen some manipulations using cos x and sin x series to derive it, but this is far more easy and elegant to do!

@tombouie 2 года назад

Thks I;ve been trying to figure this out for years.

@CesarAlvarez-pl5sm 2 года назад

This is great!! keep it up

@hrperformance 2 года назад

I feel like I understand polynomials as a whole better, as a result of this video. I loved watching it and found it incredibly useful. The notes are really good to use in tandem with the video, and very much appreciated. I can't get over how clever and simple the technique is to get a Taylor series. And on top of that, how useful it has been for us as a species. This stuff really makes me appreciate the power of maths. I feel really privileged I can study this subject 😊 That was an awesome video 👍🏽

@Gshi-pn9tb Год назад

wow!amazing!thanks for your video!😍😍🥰🥰🥰

@noahwilliams9231 2 года назад

Absolutely amazing

@sanjayd411 2 года назад

Outstanding! 👍

@kabandajamir9844 9 месяцев назад

So real and nice thanks

@maurocruz1824 2 года назад

Missing your videos. Keep going!

@lj_ljh 2 года назад

Dang this was elegant! Thank you for this man

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks LJ!

@remomagalhaes4707 5 месяцев назад

Really nice indeed!!

@NemanjaNiketic 2 года назад

great work!

@sergiolucas38 2 года назад

Great video, impecable :)

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Sergio!

@wesrobertson8753 2 года назад

Watched and loved this. Went to give a well deserved sub and whaddya know. I already was xD

@AMADEOSAM 2 года назад

Very good, thanks

@no_one6749 2 года назад

Great work

@eriktempelman2097 2 года назад

World-class. Well done!

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Erik!

@lifehope4201 2 года назад

hey Elliot....!! tell your mom that your son is just awesome at visualizing maths . love from India

@alphalunamare Год назад

It's a long time ago now but I recall undergraduate Maths being full of formulae which although very useful were a tad mystifying as to their 'magical' nature. This presentation from a Physicist's view point shows the path and the reasons for 'finding' such equations. As such it would seem to me that this approach should be utilised by Mathematicians when attempting to inculcate 'magic' without wands in the minds of new undergraduates. In the UK we had/have 'Pure Mathematics', 'Applied Mathematics' and 'Pure and Applied Mathematics' at High School but we do not have anything foundational like this video series which gives understanding rather than a calculus tool kit that most never open again. Tools are useless unless you know what they are for how to use them. I would hope that these presentations achieve a wider audience.

@danv8718 2 года назад

Superb explanation.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Dan!

@ghides24 Год назад

Excellent.

@johnchristian5027 Год назад

This is a great video

@nafishsarwar2077 Год назад

Dear Dr. Eliot, Can you please provide me few more terms for the correction of Bohr energy formula that includes 137.036? Thank you in advance

@curtpiazza1688 2 года назад

Most interesting presentation!

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Thanks Curt!

@user-km7kx5ki9z 8 месяцев назад

excellent !

@ralphmay3284 2 года назад

You don´t by any chance do the voice-over for the TED talk animations, right? Cause dude your voice is soothing af

@dkaranovic Год назад

Subscribed!

@passionateinspiration9186 Год назад

Great content

@manaoharsam4211 Год назад

Yes I the content is great. But maybe too fast for beginners. You need some background to understand things like momentum operator etc. But I liked how you showed as you capture more terms you got better approximation of any general function . The graphical representation meant a lot to me. Real good video.

@matveyshishov Год назад

At 3:35, what makes the bear think "including many more powers of X" will lead to more precise function values, and even over a wider range? And why exactly powers of X and not, say, trig functions? Everything after that point is understandable, but that leap of faith is really the blocker.

@matveyshishov Год назад

I have a general question. The local information at a point allows us to extract the complete function. Is there some more fundamental math for this to read?

@RobinHillyard 2 года назад

OMG, that's the first time I've understood where the fine structure constant comes from! And, the momentum operator in quantum mechanism! Beautiful :) Incidentally, 1685 was a good year for births: not only did we get Taylor, but also Bach and Handel.

@PhysicswithElliot 2 года назад

Glad it helped Robin!