Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007

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So again,
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welcome to 1801.
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We're getting started today with what
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we're calling
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Unit 1,
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highly imaginative title.
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And it's differentiation.
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So
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let me first tell you briefly what's in store in the next couple
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of weeks.
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The main topic today is what
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is a derivative.
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And
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we're going to look at
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this from several different points of view.
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And the first one is the geometric interpretation.
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And
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that's what we'll spend most of today on.
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And then we'll
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also talk about a physical interpretation of what
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a derivative is.
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And
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then there's going
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to be something else,
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which I guess is maybe the reason why calculus is so fundamental
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and why we always start with it.
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in most science and engineering schools.
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Which is the importance of derivatives
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of this to all measurements.
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So
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that means pretty much every place.
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That means in science,
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in engineering,
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in economics,
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in political science,
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et cetera.
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Polling,
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lots of commercial applications.
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Just about everything.
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Now, so that's what we'll be getting started with.
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And then there's another thing that we're going to do in
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this unit, which is we're going to explain
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how to differentiate anything.
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So
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how to differentiate any function you know.
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And
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that's kind of a tall order.
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But let me just give you an example.
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If you want to take the derivative,
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this we'll see today as the notation for the derivative of something,
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of some messy function like e to the x arc
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tan of x,
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we'll work this out by
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the end of this unit.
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So anything you can think of,
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anything you can write down,
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we can differentiate it.
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So that's what we're going to do.
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We're going to spend most of our time on this geometric interpretation.
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So let's begin with
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that. So
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here we go with the geometric interpretation
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of derivatives.
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And what we're
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going to do is just ask the geometric
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problem of finding the tangent line to
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some graph of some function.
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at some point.
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So that's
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the problem that we're addressing here.
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I guess I should probably turn this
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off. All right.
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So here's our problem.
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And now let me show you the solution.
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So,
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well,
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let's graph the function.
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So
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let's say here's its graph.
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And here's some point.
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Maybe I should draw it just a bit lower
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so that I don't.
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So here's a point P.
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Maybe it's above the point x0.
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x0,
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by the way,
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this was supposed to be an x0.
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That was some fixed place on the x -axis.
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And
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now,
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in order to perform this mighty feat,
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I will
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Use another color of chalk.
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How about red?
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So here it is.
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There's the tangent line.
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Well, not quite straight.
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Close enough.
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I did it.
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That's the end.
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That's the geometric problem.
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I achieved what I wanted to do.
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And it's kind of an interesting question,
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which unfortunately I can't
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solve for you in this class,
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which is, how did I do that?
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That is,
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how physically did I manage to know what to do to draw this tangent
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line? But that's what geometric problems are like.
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We visualize it.
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We can figure it out.
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Somewhere in our brains it happens.
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And the task that we have now is to figure out
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how to do it analytically,
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to do it in a way that
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A machine could do just as well as I did in drawing this tangent line.
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So
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what did we learn in high school about what a tangent line
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is?
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Well, a tangent line has an equation.
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Any line through point has the equation y -y0 is
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equal to m the slope times x -x0.
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So here's the equation
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for that line.
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And now there are two pieces of information that we're going
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to need to work out what the line is.
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The first one is the point.
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That's that point P there.
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And to specify P,
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given x,
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we need to know the level of y,
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which is of course just f .
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Now, that's not a calculus problem.
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But anyway, that's a very important part of the process.
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So that's the first thing we need to know.
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And the second thing we need to know is
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the slope.
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And that's this number
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m.
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And in calculus,
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we have another name for it.
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We call it f' ,
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namely the derivative.
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of f.
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So that's the calculus part,
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that's the tricky part,
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and that's the part that we have to discuss now.
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So just to make that explicit
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here, I'm going to make a definition,
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which is that f' ,
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which is known as the derivative of f
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at x0,
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is the
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slope of the
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tangent line to
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y equals f at the point,
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let's just call it p.
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So
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that's what it is.
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But still I haven't made any progress in figuring out
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any better how I drew that line.
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So I have to say something that's more concrete,
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because I want to be able to cook up what these numbers are.
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I have to figure out what this number m is.
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And one way of thinking about that,
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let me just try it.
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So I certainly am taking for granted that in sort of non -calculus part,
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that I know what a line through a point is.
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So I know this equation.
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But another possibility might be,
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you know,
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this line here.
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How do I know,
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well, unfortunately I didn't draw it quite straight,
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but there it is.
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How do I know that this orange line is not a
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tangent line,
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but this other line is a tangent line?
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Well,
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it's
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actually not so obvious.
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But I'm going to describe it a little bit.
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It's not really the fact,
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this thing crosses at some other
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Which is this point q.
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But it's not really the fact that the thing crosses it to place.
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Because the line could be wiggly,
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the curve could be wiggly.
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And it could cross back and forth a number of times.
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That's not what distinguishes the tangent line.
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So I'm going to have to somehow grasp
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this. And I first do it in language.
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And it's the following idea.
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this orange line,
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which is called a secant line.
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And you think of the q,
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the point q is getting closer and closer to p.
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Then the slope of that line will get closer and closer to
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the slope of the red line.
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And if we draw it close
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enough, then
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That's going to be the correct line.
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So that's really what I did sort of in my brain when I drew that first line.
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And so that's the way I'm going to articulate it first now.
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So the tangent line is
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equal to the limit of
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what's so -called secant lines,
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pq,
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as q tends to p.
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And here we're thinking of p as being fixed.
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And q as varying.
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Again,
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this is still a geometric discussion.
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But now we're going to be able to put symbols and formulas
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to this computation.
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And we'll be able to work out formulas
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in any example.
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So
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let's do that.
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So first of all,
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I'm going to write out these points p
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and q again.
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So maybe we'll put p here and q here.
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And I'm thinking of this line through them.
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I guess it was orange,
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so we'll leave it as orange.
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And now
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I want to compute its slope.
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And so this will gradually,
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we'll do this in two steps.
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And these steps will introduce us to the basic notations which are used throughout calculus,
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including multivariable calculus across the board.
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Here's the x -axis underneath.
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And here's the x0,
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the location directly below the point p.
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And we're traveling here a horizontal distance,
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which is denoted by delta x.
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So that's delta x,
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so -called.
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And we could also call it the change in
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x.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So
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that's one thing we want to measure in order to get the slope of this
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line pq.
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And the other thing is this height.
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So that's this distance here,
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which we denote delta f,
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which is the change in f.
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And then the
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slope is just the ratio,
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delta f over delta x.
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So this is the slope of the
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secant.
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And
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the process I just described over here with this limit applies
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not just to the whole line itself,
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but also in particular to its slope.
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And the way we write that is the limit.
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as delta x goes to 0.
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And that's going to be our slope.
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So this is the slope of the tangent line.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
OK.
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Now,
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this
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is still a little general.
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And I want to work out a more usable
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form here.
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I want to work out a better formula for this.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And in order to do that,
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I'm going to write delta f,
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the numerator,
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more explicitly.
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here.
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The change in f.
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So remember that the point P is
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the point x0,
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f .
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
All right,
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that's what we got from our formula for the point.
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And in order to compute
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these distances,
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and in particular the vertical distance here,
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I'm going to have to get a formula for q as well.
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So if this horizontal distance is delta x,
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then this location is x0 plus delta x.
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And so the point above that point has
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a formula, which is x0
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plus delta x f of,
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and this is a mouthful,
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x0 plus delta x.
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So
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there's the formula for the point q.
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Here's the formula for the point p.
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And now I can write a different formula for
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the derivative,
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which is the following.
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So this f' ,
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which is the same as m,
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is going to be the limit,
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as delta x goes to 0,
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of the change in f.
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Well, the change in f is the value of f at
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the upper point here,
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which is x0 plus delta x.
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And minus its value at the lower point,
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p, which is f ,
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divided by delta
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x.
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So this is the formula.
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I'm going to put this in a little box,
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because this is by far the most important formula
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today, which we use to derive pretty much everything else.
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And this is the way that we're going to be able to compute
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these numbers.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
let's do an example.
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This example,
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so we'll call this example 1.
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We'll
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take the function f ,
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which is 1 over x.
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That's sufficiently complicated to have
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an interesting answer.
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And sufficiently straightforward that we can compute
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the derivative fairly quickly.
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So what is it that we're
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going to do here?
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
All we're going to do is
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we're going to
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Plug in this formula here for that function.
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That's all we're going to do.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And visually,
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what we're accomplishing is somehow to take the
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hyperbola and take a point on the hyperbola and figure out
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some tangent
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line.
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That's what we're accomplishing when we do that.
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So we're accomplishing this geometrically,
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but we'll be doing it algebraically.
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we consider this difference delta f over
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delta x.
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And write out its formula.
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So I have to have a place,
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so I'm going to make it again above this point x0,
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which is a general point.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
We'll make the general calculation.
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So the value of f at the top,
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when we move to the right by f ,
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so I just read off from here the
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formula.
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The first thing I get here is 1 over x0 plus delta x.
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That's the left -hand term.
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Minus 1 over x0.
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That's the right -hand term.
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And then I have to divide that by delta x.
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So here's our expression.
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And by the way,
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this has a name.
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This thing is called a difference quotient.
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It's pretty complicated because there's always a difference in the numerator.
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And in disguise,
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the denominator is a difference because it's the difference between the value on the
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right side and the value on the left side here.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
OK,
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so now we're going to simplify
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it by some algebra.
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So let's just take a look.
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So this is equal to,
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let's continue on the next.
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level here.
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This is equal to 1 over delta x times,
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now all I'm going to do is put it over a common denominator.
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So the common denominator is x0
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plus delta x times x0.
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And so in the numerator for the first expression,
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I have x0.
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And for the second expression I have x0 plus delta x.
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So this is the same thing as I had in the numerator
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before, factoring out this denominator.
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And here I put that numerator into this
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more amenable form.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And now there are two basic cancellations.
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The first one is that x0 and x0 cancel.
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So we have this.
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Two expressions cancel.
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The numerator and denominator,
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now we have a cancellation that we can make use of.
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So we'll write that under here.
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And this is equals minus
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1 over x0 plus delta x times
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x0.
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And then the very last step is to take the limit
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as delta x tends to 0.
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Now we can do it.
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Before we couldn't do it.
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Why?
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Because the numerator and the dominator gave us 0 over 0.
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But now that I've made this cancellation,
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I can pass to the limit.
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And all that happens is I set this delta x equal to 0,
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and I get minus 1 over x0 squared.
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So that's the answer.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So
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in other words, what I've shown,
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let me put it up here,
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is that f prime of x0 is minus 1 over
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x0 squared.
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Now, let's look at the graph just a little bit to check this for
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plausibility.
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What's happening
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here is, first of all,
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it's negative.
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It's less than 0,
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which is a good thing.
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You see that slope there is negative.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
That's
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the simplest check that you could make.
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that I would just like to point out is that as x goes
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to infinity,
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that is, as we go farther to the right,
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it gets less and less steep.
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So less and,
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whoops,
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as x0 goes to infinity,
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not 0.
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As x0 goes to infinity,
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less and less steep.
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So that's also consistent here.
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When x0 is very large,
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this is a smaller and smaller number in magnitude.
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Although it's always negative.
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It's always sloping down.
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So
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I've managed to fill the boards,
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so maybe I should stop for a question or two.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
Yes?
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So
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the question is to explain again this limiting
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process.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So the formula here is we have basically two numbers.
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So in other words,
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why is it that this expression,
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when delta x tends to 0,
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is equal to minus 1 over x0 squared?
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
Let me illustrate it by sticking in a number for x0
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to make it more explicit.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So for instance,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
let me stick in here for x0 the number 3.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
Then it's minus 1 over 3 plus delta x
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
times 3.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
That's the situation that we've got.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And now the question is,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
what happens as this number gets smaller and smaller and smaller and gets to
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
be practically 0?
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
Well,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
literally what we can do is just plug in 0 there.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
Then you get 3 plus 0 times 3 in the denominator,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
minus 1 in the numerator.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So this tends to minus
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
1 over 9,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
over 3 squared.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And that's what I'm saying in general with this extra
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
number here.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
Other questions?
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
Yes.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
the question is,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
what happened between this step and this step,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
right? Explain this step here.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So there were two parts to that.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
The first is,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
this delta x,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
which was sitting in the denominator,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
I factored all the way out front.
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And so what's in the parentheses is supposed to be the same as
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
What's in the numerator of this other expression.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And then,
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
at the same time as doing that,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
I put that expression,
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
which is the difference of two fractions,
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
I expressed it with a common denominator.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
So in the denominator here,
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
you see the product of the denominators of the two fractions.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And then I just figured out what the numerator had to be.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
Without really,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
yeah,
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
other questions.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
That on the whole,
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
calculus gets a bad rap.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
That it's actually easier than most
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
things.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
But there's a perception that it's
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S… Speaker 1 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
harder.
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S… Speaker 2 (Lec 1 MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007)
And so I really have a duty to give

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