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The essence of calculus
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What might it feel like to invent calculus?
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In this first video of the series, we see how unraveling the nuances of a simple geometry question can lead to integrals, derivatives, and the fundamental theorem of calculus.
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'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WUvTyaaNkzM/pics/WUvTyaaNkzM446673.jpg'}, {'end': 549.895, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 518.828, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 523.852, 'text': 'Things like figuring out how far a car has traveled based on its velocity at each point in time.', 'start': 518.828, 'duration': 5.024}, {'end': 525.454, 'text': 'In a case like that,', 'start': 524.693, 'duration': 0.761}, {'end': 538.044, 'text': 'you might range through many different points in time and at each one multiply the velocity at that time times a tiny change in time dt which would give the corresponding little bit of distance traveled during that little time.', 'start': 525.454, 'duration': 12.59}, {'end': 542.533, 'text': "I'll talk through the details of examples like this later in the series.", 'start': 539.172, 'duration': 3.361}, {'end': 549.895, 'text': 'but at a high level, many of these types of problems turn out to be equivalent to finding the area under some 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ring.', 'duration': 42.137, 'highlights': ['The area of the circle is approximated by breaking it into rings, each with a thickness of 0.1 and a radius ranging from 0 to just under 3, using the formula 2πrdr.', 'The spacing between the values corresponds to the thickness dr of each ring.']}, {'end': 423.574, 'start': 282.225, 'title': 'Approximating circle area with rectangles', 'summary': 'Illustrates how to approximate the area of a circle using rectangles with decreasing width, converging to the formula for the area of a circle, a = πr^2.', 'duration': 141.349, 'highlights': ['Each rectangle approximates the area of the corresponding ring from the circle, with the approximation, 2πr times dr, improving as the size of dr gets smaller.', 'The area under the graph of 2πr forms a triangle with a base of 3 and a height of 2π times 3, resulting in the formula for the area of a circle, A = πr^2.', 'The chapter emphasizes the significance of developing general problem-solving tools and 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smaller the size of that nudge, dx, the more that sliver actually looks like a rectangle.', 'start': 729.651, 'duration': 5.354}, {'end': 741.208, 'text': 'Now this gives us an interesting way to think about how a of x is related to x squared.', 'start': 736.724, 'duration': 4.484}, {'end': 743.85, 'text': 'A change to the output of a.', 'start': 742.008, 'duration': 1.842}, {'end': 749.214, 'text': 'this little dA is about equal to x squared where x is whatever input you started.', 'start': 743.85, 'duration': 5.364}, {'end': 753.898, 'text': 'at times dx the little nudge to the input that caused a to change.', 'start': 749.214, 'duration': 4.684}, {'end': 758.121, 'text': 'Or rearranged dA divided by dx,', 'start': 754.999, 'duration': 3.122}, {'end': 765.707, 'text': 'the ratio of a tiny change in a to the tiny change in x that caused it is approximately whatever x squared is at that point.', 'start': 758.121, 'duration': 7.586}, {'end': 770.973, 'text': "And that's an approximation 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'text': 'as dx gets smaller and smaller.', 'start': 865.584, 'duration': 1.581}, {'end': 873.309, 'text': "I'll dive much more deeply into the idea of a derivative in the next video, but, loosely speaking,", 'start': 868.146, 'duration': 5.163}, {'end': 877.092, 'text': "it's a measure of how sensitive a function is to small changes in its input.", 'start': 873.309, 'duration': 3.783}, {'end': 882.936, 'text': "You'll see as the series goes on that there are many, many ways that you can visualize a derivative,", 'start': 877.912, 'duration': 5.024}], 'summary': 'Derivative measures function sensitivity to small input changes.', 'duration': 25.877, 'max_score': 857.059, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WUvTyaaNkzM/pics/WUvTyaaNkzM857059.jpg'}, {'end': 963.954, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 911.718, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 917.983, 'text': 'but you do know that its derivative should be x squared and from that reverse engineer what the 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questions', 'The approximation of the unwrapped ring as a thin rectangle is 2 pi times r times dr, which becomes a better approximation for the area as the choices of dr become smaller']}