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5. Summary

Introduced the derivative.
Graphically motivated as the limit of the secant approximation to a function.
Know that the derivative measures the rate of change, that is how y changes as x changes.
Key words for derivatives: rates, per, marginal.


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Richard Waterman
1999-06-01