Definition of derivative - Illinois Institute of Technology

Derivative-The Concept •As we saw, the slope can be very ambiguous if applied to most functions in general. •Here, we modify the idea of a slope. Using the idea of a limit, we rewrite the slope as: • =lim ∆ →0 ∆ ∆ •This is defined as the derivative. •It may seem absurd to do this, since intuition says that as ∆ →0, ................
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