From Secant Lines to Derivatives
From Reasonable Hope (Math) · 3:43
Show by Dave Kester
How can we calculate speed at a single instant or the slope of a curve at one point? Calculus begins with average rates over smaller intervals and follows their approximations toward an exact limit called the derivative.
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