Calculus Crash Course I: Derivatives @zapphysics
Calculus Crash Course I: Derivatives  @zapphysics
Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Intro to calculus: basics of the instantaneous rate of change, or derivative. Crash course on how to take derivatives and various rules of the derivative including the chain rule and product rule.

Some useful derivative tables can be found here:

https://www.math.uh.edu/~kpnguyen/Spring2016/131derivativetable.pdf

mathcentre.ac.uk/resources/Engineering%20maths%20first%20aid%20kit/latexsource%20and%20diagrams/8_2.pdf

As a useful exercise, try proving some of these with the general formula!
Calculus Crash Course I: DerivativesLets Learn Physics: Back to WorkHow to Get Classical Physics from Quantum MechanicsUnifying the Forces: Electroweak Theory (Standard Model Part 7)Antiparticles and C, P, and T Transformations (The Standard Model Part 2)Whats the Difference Between Fermions and Bosons?Why Adding Velocities Does Not Work in Special RelativityHow Do They Weigh The Higgs Boson?Colorful Quantum Mechanics (Standard Model Part 5)What is Length Contraction?Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and The Higgs MechanismCan the Second Law of Thermodynamics Be Broken?
ZAP Physics |

Calculus Crash Course I: Derivatives

SHARE TO X SHARE TO REDDIT SHARE TO FACEBOOK WALLPAPER