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Taylor Expansions in 2d In your first year Calculus course you developed a family of formulae for approximating a function F (t) for t near any fixed point t . The crudest approximation was just a constant. 0 F (t + ∆t) ≈ F (t ) 0 0 The next better approximation included a correction that is linear in ∆t. ′ F (t + ∆t) ≈ F (t ) + F (t )∆t 0 0 0 The next better approximation included a correction that is quadratic in ∆t. ′ 1 ′′ 2 F (t + ∆t) ≈ F (t ) + F (t )∆t + F (t )∆t 0 0 0 2 0 n And so on. The approximation that includes all corrections up to order ∆t is ′ 1 ′′ 2 1 (3) 3 1 (n) n F (t + ∆t) ≈ F (t ) + F (t )∆t + F (t )∆t + F (t )∆t + · · · + F (t )∆t 0 0 0 2! 0 3! 0 n! 0 You may have also found a formula for the error introduced in making this approximation. The error E (∆t) is defined by n ′ 1 ′′ 2 1 (n) n F (t + ∆t) = F (t ) + F (t )∆t + F (t )∆t + · · · + F (t )∆t + E (∆t) 0 0 0 2! 0