Calculus

Calculus

Calculus is the mathmatical study of change. Calculus has two branches, differential calculus and integral calculus.

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integration by parts

Mathematics; Calculus

One of the most common techniques of integration, used to reduce complicated integrals into one of the basic integration forms.

antiderivative

Mathematics; Calculus

A function F(x ) is called an antiderivative of a function f(x ) if F'(x ) =; f(x ) for all x in the domain of f . In words, this means that an antiderivative of f is a function which has f ...

slope of the tangent line

Mathematics; Calculus

One way of interpreting the derivative of a function is to understand it as the slope of a line tangent to the function.

slope-intercept form

Mathematics; Calculus

The slope-intercept form for the equation of a line is y =; mx + b , where m stands for the slope of the line and the line has its y -intercept (the place where the line crosses the y -axis) ...

subtrahend

Mathematics; Calculus

A number that is subtracted from another number. In the equation 7-2=5, 2 is the subtrahend.

A sequence with a limit that is a real number. For example, the sequence 5.1, 5.01, 5.001, 5.0001, . . . has limit 5, so the sequence converges to 5. On the other hand, the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ...