Visual Derivative Definition!

This video animates the idea behind the derivative of a function. We show how to think about the definition of the derivative of a function visually by using a limiting process of slopes of secant lines to obtain the slope of the tangent line (which measures the instant rate of change of a function at a point).
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  • @user-xd5gq8mp5e
    @user-xd5gq8mp5e Жыл бұрын

    The best explanation! I like how you explained the reason why we use limits. I wish I saw this video earlier

  • @supermarioenthusiast5881
    @supermarioenthusiast5881 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful visuals man! Is there also a possibility for you to do this demonstration but with x->a replaced with the h->0 where h represents height proof for derivatives?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    Tried to do that here but ran out of time :). I’ll see if I can do a Follow up

  • @DeanCalhoun

    @DeanCalhoun

    Жыл бұрын

    simply take this formula and substitute a with x+h. you will get the familiar formula, and if x is approaching x+h, then h must be approaching 0

  • @SaiManognyaDesetty-bs3gp
    @SaiManognyaDesetty-bs3gp9 ай бұрын

    I properly understood what a derivative is after two years of learning calculus. Same goes for why limits are necessary. Thank you very much for this short and highly informative video!

  • @AmanKumar-wd6hm
    @AmanKumar-wd6hmАй бұрын

    KZread without distraction videos 🗿🗿🗿🗿

  • @user-su3wk8od6m
    @user-su3wk8od6m10 ай бұрын

    Best explanation on KZread please upload the entire video of calculas...Your explanation is really great.......

  • @nishantkumarsingh5002

    @nishantkumarsingh5002

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes

  • @vladimirrodriguez6382
    @vladimirrodriguez6382 Жыл бұрын

    Magnificent graphic explanation 👏👍😊

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @jarige4489
    @jarige4489 Жыл бұрын

    I simply love your channel, it reminds me why math is beautiful!

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @anandtewani7591
    @anandtewani7591 Жыл бұрын

    Where the hell was this creator when I was needed the most 😢 Btw I completed my school 14 years ago. Anyways I wished I would have got the exposure to such informative videos earlier...life would have been definitely different today.

  • @MoguMogu818
    @MoguMogu8189 ай бұрын

    Back when these videos to me were gibberish now make me realize how much easier I would've had it if I had studied calculus by trying to understand the math instead of trying to force myself to do the math problems.

  • @annahlee
    @annahlee Жыл бұрын

    this youtube short was amazing for review. Thank you!

  • @prajwalbhoite9865
    @prajwalbhoite98659 ай бұрын

    Beautifully explained, thanks

  • @barsbasaran8904
    @barsbasaran890411 ай бұрын

    such a clear explanation ! nice work

  • @user-ak7as2hi9q
    @user-ak7as2hi9q7 ай бұрын

    OMG👁️👄👁️ What a explanation

  • @Inspirator_AG112
    @Inspirator_AG112 Жыл бұрын

    *Step 1:* Construct a tangent line at (a, f(a)). *Step 2:* Construct a right triangle whose base is 1, and whose hypotenuse is on the tangent line. (Ideally at (a, f(a)).) *Step 3:* Measure the height of that right triangle; that should be f'(a).

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you construct the tangent line?

  • @Inspirator_AG112

    @Inspirator_AG112

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MathVisualProofs: I was mainly talking about if the curve was a physical object or drawn on paper.

  • @tomedgar57

    @tomedgar57

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Inspirator_AG112 :) that works

  • @treybell40501
    @treybell405014 ай бұрын

    I wish I could love this video bc you don’t know how much this changed my perspective

  • @shuvra4352
    @shuvra4352 Жыл бұрын

    Best explanation...

  • @greywolf7422

    @greywolf7422

    Жыл бұрын

    It was good during the first 20 seconds, but such an explanation needed at least 2-3 minutes to let the various variables in the presentation settle with the audience. Good in theory maybe if it was done in a regular video format or linked to in the shorts description as a full video. Not all students who come across such explanations will be able to follow such a rapid pace explanation, especially the last 20-30 seconds.

  • @robertwaremusic
    @robertwaremusic3 ай бұрын

    I can't tell you how many videos I watched on this topic that were like 10 minutes long and confusing as hell, and this tiny video made it make sense.

  • @pawanyadav3399
    @pawanyadav33998 ай бұрын

    Nice explanation🙏🙏🙏🙏 sir

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    8 ай бұрын

    👍😀

  • @jonathanreynolds2625
    @jonathanreynolds262511 ай бұрын

    Holy fucking cow biscuits! I've been struggling with this exact thing the last few days and I finally get it!

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    11 ай бұрын

    👍😀

  • @ceebad8985
    @ceebad8985 Жыл бұрын

    Can you do something similar but for the fundamental theorem of calculus? Thank you, your videos have helped me a lot ❤️.

  • @TheSerpion148
    @TheSerpion148 Жыл бұрын

    Very good❤

  • @qenrl8474
    @qenrl84749 ай бұрын

    Your explanation make it so easy to understand! Literally only have introductory knowledge and limits and you still managed to do it. Only thing im confused about is why would you need to find the instantaneous rate of change?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    9 ай бұрын

    It’s nice to know how fast a process is changing at any instant. Then you kind of know what to expect. You can study rates of rates of change and then get a better picture. For instance you can tell if emissions are increasing or decreasing and if they are decreasing at a decreasing rate. All of this can be done analytically once you have a model of the process.

  • @helldestroyer
    @helldestroyer Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for nice video ❤❤

  • @omagoss
    @omagoss8 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much

  • @Beegeezy144
    @Beegeezy144 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful.

  • @user-su3wk8od6m
    @user-su3wk8od6m10 ай бұрын

    Love you from India.

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    10 ай бұрын

    👍😀

  • @nishantkumarsingh5002

    @nishantkumarsingh5002

    10 ай бұрын

    Congratulations for the susses of Chandrayan 3...🎉

  • @Mmmmgh34
    @Mmmmgh348 ай бұрын

    Just WOW

  • @vigneshbalaji21
    @vigneshbalaji21 Жыл бұрын

    Nice explanation. Derivative is based on secant line

  • @user-yg2yi6gy3c
    @user-yg2yi6gy3c10 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much it really helped a lot😊

  • @ndrcrypto
    @ndrcrypto Жыл бұрын

    amazing

  • @TalSzor
    @TalSzor Жыл бұрын

    My HS physics teacher used the same visual idea when he taught us derivatives for the first time.

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear it!

  • @elixpo
    @elixpo Жыл бұрын

    Manim at its peak xD

  • @TOUKAYSWISSI
    @TOUKAYSWISSI Жыл бұрын

    Good!

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @unknown-lg9oh
    @unknown-lg9oh2 ай бұрын

    Bro cooked my brain and ate it

  • @lory3771
    @lory37719 ай бұрын

    Every Calculus student just groaned at having to do six hundred problems using the formal definition of a derivative

  • @wyboo2019
    @wyboo2019 Жыл бұрын

    this is great for functions between one-dimensional vector spaces, but i prefer the interpretation of "how a small movement in the input spaces changes the output space" interpretation to generalize to multi-dimensional spaces

  • @hugoviloriagonzales2331
    @hugoviloriagonzales2331 Жыл бұрын

    Difícil para mi ha sido comprender antes, pero con estos simples videos, me aparece la Claridad.

  • @greywolf7422

    @greywolf7422

    Жыл бұрын

    It was good during the first 20 seconds, but such an explanation needed at least 2-3 minutes to let the various variables in the presentation settle with the audience. Good in theory maybe if it was done in a regular video format or linked to in the shorts description as a full video. Not all students who come across such explanations will be able to follow such a rapid pace explanation, especially the last 20-30 seconds.

  • @Kryy213
    @Kryy213 Жыл бұрын

    hey! i love this explanation, it's clear and concise! could you do the same for the second derivative ?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    Hmm... the second derivative is just the derivative of the derivative function... so it is just this again but applied to the derivative. Or do you mean something else?

  • @musashi4856
    @musashi4856Ай бұрын

    One day we'll develop maths that directly address Zero and Infinity ♾️/0 and finally put clothes on all the emperor's theoretical theories.

  • @dominicellis1867
    @dominicellis1867 Жыл бұрын

    And you can use the angle differential to bypass computing total differentials by simply taking the anti tan of dy/dx.

  • @sumithadavid5841
    @sumithadavid58417 ай бұрын

    So what will be the graph of double differentiation of that curve y=f(x)

  • @Drift1
    @Drift1 Жыл бұрын

    You explained this in under a minute compared to an hour lecture I ha d

  • @Cactly
    @Cactly Жыл бұрын

    I haven’t taken calculus yet. This sounds like a different language

  • @user-kl4wy5ih4g
    @user-kl4wy5ih4g8 ай бұрын

    It's Lagrange's Mean Value Theorem

  • @lahiru1k
    @lahiru1k5 ай бұрын

    OMFG everything clicked!!!!

  • @Miguel_Noether
    @Miguel_Noether Жыл бұрын

    Cantor set: I'm about to destroy this man whole career

  • @p07a
    @p07a Жыл бұрын

    Can you do this but for the epsilon delta concept?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    I am sure I can't do a better job than 3blue1brown: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZp6lpKGmbadqqQ.html

  • @beanman7516
    @beanman7516 Жыл бұрын

    Rolle's theorem lore

  • @ms.andrea172
    @ms.andrea17214 күн бұрын

    I learned the Korean alphabet in less than 2 weeks, about the same amount of time for the Japanese alphabet, but this did not compute. Lol

  • @antotot04
    @antotot048 ай бұрын

    please please please please, do this with the limit definition i need it! Thank you for your work, is super helpful

  • @Shaeffen_
    @Shaeffen_ Жыл бұрын

    You'd be able to make a good video on riehman sums

  • @rishabhbahuguna8903
    @rishabhbahuguna89037 ай бұрын

    damn everything just clicked, im not even that good at maths❤️

  • @Questiala123
    @Questiala12310 ай бұрын

    Or just d approaches 0 and delta = d of delta(y)/delta(x).

  • @yanggang4352
    @yanggang4352 Жыл бұрын

    To me the most interesting thing is any tangent passes through 2 contiguous points and not 1! It's unfortunate that nobody teaches this, but it's true

  • @kbin7042

    @kbin7042

    Жыл бұрын

    That's false

  • @Lorz
    @Lorz8 ай бұрын

    Nice explanation. Only thing is the wording: "instant rate of change". Its an oxymoron. Instant describes a specific point in time. Change is a timespan so its not the same

  • @Ryancodehcs
    @Ryancodehcs4 ай бұрын

    Sir , this has helped me deepen my understanding of derivatives on an intuitive level but I have query, why would we want to the instantaneous rate of change of cosx is sinx , while this may sound stupid I cannot understand the usage of this outside of scope of displacement graphs (to find speed).

  • @prithvisinghpanwar6609
    @prithvisinghpanwar660910 ай бұрын

    wait wait instant rate of change???!??? htf can you find it i took a photo of a uniformly moving car in a straight line tell me the acceleration of the car

  • @kingonion2102
    @kingonion21024 ай бұрын

    I know that the derivative at x=a is equal to the slope of the tangent line at x=a, but how can we be sure of it? Isn't it just a very close approximation to say that the derivative is the slope of the tangent?

  • @pureanimations4260
    @pureanimations4260Ай бұрын

    What is an alarming wave called? A warning sine.

  • @amitvikramsinghparihar8241
    @amitvikramsinghparihar824111 ай бұрын

    LMVT

  • @koponstanley4
    @koponstanley44 ай бұрын

    What about d²y/dx² Is it rate of change twice?

  • @m7mdMAH5
    @m7mdMAH57 ай бұрын

    Bruh this video should be in every class that is starting derivative lessons, in our school they said "Limit", "Mr. what is Limit" "IDK it's just like that" Not even kidding

  • @abdeljalilpr2033
    @abdeljalilpr2033 Жыл бұрын

    Please the proof of the derivative of the product of two fonctions

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    I’ll see what I can do.

  • @mrawesome2704
    @mrawesome27049 ай бұрын

    Are you on the manim discord channel?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    9 ай бұрын

    Sometimes but rarely.

  • @joshuairvin9661
    @joshuairvin9661 Жыл бұрын

    Engineering student: x=a

  • @Malke864
    @Malke864Ай бұрын

    0:00

  • @danangwiratama6887
    @danangwiratama6887 Жыл бұрын

    What apk do you edit math animation like that?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    I use manim for these animations.

  • @maki9462
    @maki94628 ай бұрын

    Nice

  • @Vighnesh_Graphicdesinger
    @Vighnesh_Graphicdesinger11 ай бұрын

    3blue1brown Khan Academy Crash course Organic chem tutor None of their videos led me to understand this bt your 60 sec short did I thank you very much 🙏

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    11 ай бұрын

    Glad to hear that

  • @nishantkumarsingh5002

    @nishantkumarsingh5002

    10 ай бұрын

    Are you Indian

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    10 ай бұрын

    @@nishantkumarsingh5002 I am not.

  • @dranandamay
    @dranandamay9 ай бұрын

    So limit is to find 0/0, without dividing 0 by 0 😮

  • @Fernandolorian_
    @Fernandolorian_3 ай бұрын

    HOLY SHIT I THINK I GOT IT HAHAHA

  • @beautyreveal1715
    @beautyreveal171529 күн бұрын

    What about the visualization of derivative of sin(x) to cos(x)

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    29 күн бұрын

    It’s on my channel. Wide format has many details. Short shows just the way to think about derivatives.

  • @mohammadbajoouri568
    @mohammadbajoouri5685 ай бұрын

    It is a+ or a-?

  • @decksforgg9883
    @decksforgg98839 ай бұрын

    I don't understand how is that change. Like it's just the point what's changing

  • @Dhruv45124
    @Dhruv45124 Жыл бұрын

    When we say Derivative of sinx What do we mean Do we mean finding the slope of tangent of whole graph or what, please help as I am new in calculus

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    This means finding the function that outputs the slope of the tangent line (or instant rate of change of the sine function at the right input) . Check this one : kzread.infoOD6WBF5lVwA?feature=share

  • @Dhruv45124

    @Dhruv45124

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@MathVisualProofs ok i got that! 😊 I have one doubt left-: How can you have a variable 'x' on x axis if the graph is of y=f(x) Because I have seen that, there exists points other than x on x axis for example, b, c, d etc... And when we put their value we get f(b), f(c) respectively. Also thank you

  • @ScarletEmber64

    @ScarletEmber64

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Dhruv45124 basically, the x-axis represents x itself There doesn't really exists a "point x", x just represents all possible values we can input into our function so when we say that we have f(c) for example, that just means we are setting x to be equal to any arbitrary point, which we call c here, and get the value for f(x) at that point

  • @ZAIKRO23
    @ZAIKRO239 ай бұрын

    Hello hello you are explanation is so beautiful but I can't understand English so much😢

  • @christopherellis2663
    @christopherellis2663 Жыл бұрын

    Pretty! But why would one wish to know that?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    If you know the current state of a process and how it is changing, you can get a good feel for where the process will be in the future or where it was in the past. This is fundamental for studying anything that changes over time.

  • @shubhamvishwakarma3629
    @shubhamvishwakarma362911 ай бұрын

    What if limit doesn't exists ?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    11 ай бұрын

    Then the instant rate of change is undefined at that point

  • @lanedouglas9297
    @lanedouglas92979 ай бұрын

    I do believe lim fubared me

  • @elreturner1227
    @elreturner122727 күн бұрын

    Not instant very very impossibly close but not instant

  • @scrappy4170
    @scrappy41706 ай бұрын

    Great explanation but "instant" and "rate of change" don't make sense next to eachother

  • @Boltkiller96

    @Boltkiller96

    6 ай бұрын

    you came here after watching 3b1b's video right?

  • @scrappy4170

    @scrappy4170

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Boltkiller96 it's just something in the back of my mind and now when I see people say that, it just annoys me a bit

  • @epicchocolate1866

    @epicchocolate1866

    5 ай бұрын

    @@scrappy4170 fine the infinitesimal change variation in y wrt an infinitesimal change in x

  • @R_802
    @R_802 Жыл бұрын

    Instantly rate of change? That's an oxymoron.

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    How do? There is the rate of change at an instant and there is the average rate of change. Calculus explains how to find the instant rate of change using a limit of average rates of change.

  • @scrumdiddlyumptious979
    @scrumdiddlyumptious979 Жыл бұрын

    Does the limit give the exact value of the slope at that point? It is a bit difficult for me to understand as the limit actually talks about what is happening around that point that than that point itself right? Please help me as I am new to calculus

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    The limit is the exact value of the tangent line slope (provided it exists)

  • @scrumdiddlyumptious979

    @scrumdiddlyumptious979

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MathVisualProofs thank you!

  • @11am2
    @11am2 Жыл бұрын

    So f'(x) = 0/0?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    In a sense.

  • @SpenceReam
    @SpenceReam7 ай бұрын

    The word “instant” describes a concept that is without time. “Change” can only occur with time. The phrase “instant rate of change” is semantically nonsensical…

  • @Boltkiller96

    @Boltkiller96

    6 ай бұрын

    i think he uses instant to refer to a very small time but yeah this is stupid

  • @epicchocolate1866

    @epicchocolate1866

    5 ай бұрын

    Well in other contexts it not. The velocity is the instantaneous rate of change of position

  • @Werepizzaa
    @Werepizzaa10 ай бұрын

    Congratulations. You successfully made me understand this LESS. 0/10

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    10 ай бұрын

    Interesting. So how do you make sense of the derivative then?

  • @abdulalialotaibi7062
    @abdulalialotaibi7062 Жыл бұрын

    Not necessary for every day life

  • @idlesquadron7283

    @idlesquadron7283

    11 ай бұрын

    OK! a lot of things aren't and that's ok

  • @burnulli1541
    @burnulli1541 Жыл бұрын

    perfect video ! Are you using manim for animations my friend ?

  • @MathVisualProofs

    @MathVisualProofs

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes I am!