Big Picture: Derivatives

Instructor:
Prof. Gilbert Strang

Resources:
Summary with practice problems
(PDF with audio - 1.7MB)
(MP3 - 1.7MB)

Practice problems
(PDF no audio)

Free downloads:
Internet Archive (MP4 - 134MB)
iTunes U (MP4 - 66MB)

Professor Strang's Calculus textbook (1st edition, 1991) is freely available here.

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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."