Go back to your calculus class senior year in high school. You take the derivative of y with respect to x. You are finding the sensitivity to the change in the function with respect to a change in ...

What is the derivative and why do you need it in physics? Here is a very quick introduction to derivatives to get you through your first physics course.

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