Constructing the Perfect Piston

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This Demonstration is a top view of a 3D engine piston. It is designed to engage calculus students in learning about the formal definition of a limit. The idea is to determine the range of possible diameters giving a piston with a cross-sectional area within the given tolerance constraints.
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Contributed by: Joshua Fritz, Angela Sharp, and Chad Pierson (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Published: March 7 2011