Finding Instantaneous Velocity, Part 1 of 3, from Thinkwell's Calculus Video Course

[MagicMussh]

His excitement makes me excited :D !!!

[DoomDude20101]

burgers are epic



[BungieX2000]

I'm glad he teaches this. I was lost in physics today when he went over calculus.

[Amberitus]

It's sad that with all our technology, we still don't learn how to use it to research credentials of lecturers before making ourselves look foolish. Hee Hee.

[PEBHMONGdotCOM]

I have a question. If this guy is really a good teacher and wish that he was our teacher, why hasn't a school hired him?

[ThinkwellVids]

@PEBHMONGdotCOM Professor Burger currently works at Williams College as a Professor of Mathematics. He not only has won the Lissack Professor for Social Responsibility and Personal Ethics at Williams College, but he also earned the Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching from Baylor University. He loves math and teaching so much that he does these videos to spread the knowledge even further. He is considered to be one of the early pioneers of online, multimedia textbooks.

[KodeLiMe]

@ThinkwellVids Burn :)

[ThinkwellVids]

@KodeLiMe Wasn't meant as a burn. Honestly, I love Professor Burger and he has amazing credentials. Don't want anyone to think that we just let anyone teach our courses. :)

[Impulse799]

Derivative using the limit method, also known as the difference quotient. Great example to materialize the concept.

[speedproductions797]

awesome

[terrelleee]

AHHHH smart talk it hurts me brain.....lol i'm learning this in a week but now i guess im ahead in class thanks...i don't know why im in honors classes i never remember things when i first do things.

[xRick37x]

To answer your question: The offset you know cannot be zero. So you must take the limit as Delta T Approaches 0 instead, giving the very definition of the slope of the tangent line, also known as the Derivative.

[ddrusa]

nice