Harmonic overhang (Brick Stacking)

About this app

Build an arbitrarily large overhang with N equally sized bricks — the harmonic series becomes visible as a growing stack. Slider up to N = 10,000, auto-frame, centre-of-mass display.

Subject: Analysis (one-dimensional)

More from Analysis (one-dimensional)

• Derivative as a sequence of secants
• Bounded growth
• Exponential growth and decay
• Optimisation: the largest rectangle
• Area between curves
• Area function is an antiderivative
• Sequential continuity
• Rational functions and asymptotes

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