Understanding Calculus in One Minute... 🤯

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this trick will help you remember calculus forever it came from Isaac Newton who believed there was really nothing special about a perfect circle every smooth curve when you zoom in enough looks just like a line This is similar to The Arc that forms when a rocket is launched to the naked eye from afar it looks curved due to the effect of gravity but the closer we get the straighter it becomes Newton said let's zoom in the field of view as far as we can to a point that's so small it's smaller than anything you can name but not zero you're looking at the ark not over a period of time but at a single moment what was almost a line becomes exactly a line the slope of this line is what we call the derivative if you swing a rock in a loop around your head and suddenly release it it'll shoot off in a linear trajectory at a constant speed exactly in the direction that calculus says the rock is moving at the moment you let it go be sure to subscribe to learn more