You may have seen that differential calculus is the study of the rate of change of quantities.
In differential calculus, the derivative f 0 (x) of a function f (x) is a function that measures
the rate of change of f (x). The derivative of a function has an application in geometry:
evaluating f 0 (x) at a point a allows you to find the gradient of the tangent to the curve of
f (x) at a.
This part of the course is concerned with integration of functions. There are two types of
integration on a function f (x):
• the indefinite integral of f (x) with respect to x, written as
Z
f (x) dx
• the definite integral of f (x) between limits a and b with respect to x, written as
Z b
f (x) dx
a
(It will be explained what this notation means shortly!)
The difference between the two types of integral is given by their uses. The indefinite integral
is precisely the reverse process of differentiation; this result is known as the Fundamental
Theorem of Calculus and is covered in Chapter 2 of the course. The definite integral
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