Monday, May 4, 2009

We started class today by watching a Formula 1 Racing video, which was really cool but which also led to one of the topics we covered in class- velocity. We realized that it at one point in time, an object is not moving (think of a snapshot: in a picture, an object is stationary). The solution to that problem was the term instantaneous velocity.
In addition to this, we learned about finding the slope of the line tangent to a given graph at a certain point, also called the derivative, and finding the formula for the slope of a line tangent to a given graph at any point on the graph.

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