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
Curated by: MIT OpenCourseWare (18 videos)
Professor Strang explains how the "magic number e" connects to ordinary things like the interest on a bank account. The graph of y = e^x has the special property that its slope equals its height (it goes up "exponentially fast"!). This is the great function of calculus. View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/highlights-of-calculus Chapters 00:00 Outline 00:24 The Exponential Function: y = e^x, The function that calculus created 01:15 Properties of the Exponential Function 27:20 The Graph of the Function y = e^x 30:00 Example: Computing Compound Interest 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.