Highlights of Calculus is a series of short videos that introduces the basic ideas of calculus — how it works and why it is important. The intended audience is high school students, college students, or anyone who might need help understanding the subject. In addition to the videos, there are summary slides and practice problems complete with an audio narration by Professor Strang. You can find these resources to the right of each video. View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/highlights-of-calculus
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Calculus finds the relationship between the distance traveled and the speed - easy for constant speed, not so easy for changing speed. Professor Strang is finding the "rate of change" and the "slope of a curve" and the "derivative of a function." View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/highlights-of-calculus Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:24 Relationship Between Functions: Speed & Distance, Height & Slope 03:40 Slope of the Great Functions of Calculus: y = x^n, y = sin x, y = e^x 08:47 Example: What does slope mean? y = x^2 25:05 Example: What does slope mean? y = sin x, dy/dx = cos x License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu Subtitles are provided through the generous assistance of Jimmy Ren.