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Комментарии • 316

  • @fluffyrawan7656
    @fluffyrawan7656 6 лет назад +1914

    Our teachers teach us how to pass calculus exams, not calculus itself. Thank you.

    • @AaBb-qs6gh
      @AaBb-qs6gh 4 года назад +92

      I agree , but for schools since they are limited by time, sometimes you need to study to pass not to understand😆
      You can understand in your free time which we don't have😁

    • @baticadavinci3984
      @baticadavinci3984 4 года назад +7

      couldn't agree more!

    • @unknownunknowns
      @unknownunknowns 4 года назад +6

      Aa Bb It looks like graduating high school at 18 is really early...

    • @Devilfish4387
      @Devilfish4387 3 года назад +3

      true and sad

    • @kgtech6882
      @kgtech6882 3 года назад +10

      @@AaBb-qs6gh i mean, in this 7 minutes i already learned so much than 1 and a half hour in a class.

  • @superawesomecaptainmcfluff9506
    @superawesomecaptainmcfluff9506 7 лет назад +746

    In India, we're taught to practise a million derivative calculus sums without knowing it's beauty or use, you have really opened my eyes to its practicality and concept. Thanks.
    P.S - Think about partnering with Numberphile for a video please!

    • @r.s.banimations561
      @r.s.banimations561 6 лет назад +47

      Don't say in INDIA .say it as "in your school or college .

    • @resurgam2243
      @resurgam2243 5 лет назад +55

      @@r.s.banimations561 In most schools.

    • @viveksukhla8631
      @viveksukhla8631 5 лет назад +39

      @@r.s.banimations561 in every school

    • @parulaggarwal9405
      @parulaggarwal9405 5 лет назад +2

      👌👌

    • @aarohansharma4551
      @aarohansharma4551 5 лет назад +37

      It's correct to a large extent...... I know students who excel at calculus(solving sums) but don't even know what it means conceptually!

  • @digit975
    @digit975 7 лет назад +497

    I wish more teachers and professors would teach math like this with actually relating it to the graph rather than just going straight into how to calculate it. It would be so much easier to learn this then focus on the actual math of it. This makes way more sense than just starting directly with "find dy/dx of sin^2(12x)/tan(18x) or some seemingly-arbitrary crap like that. Thank you!

    • @infinitymfg5397
      @infinitymfg5397 7 лет назад +2

      I agree.

    • @luxfries1524
      @luxfries1524 3 года назад +2

      Learn trigonometry

    • @luxfries1524
      @luxfries1524 3 года назад +4

      Nvm this was 3 years ago

    • @fraddi
      @fraddi 2 года назад

      CALCULUS WAS INVENTED IN INDIA. THE EUROPEANS STOLE IT.

    • @alkazi1482
      @alkazi1482 2 года назад

      @@fraddi And how does it help, you know the invention of the wheel was not achivement that happened in one place, it happened multiple place. Calculus is one of the primary way to calculate. Why couldn't it be discovered in multiple areas of the glove. The chinese also discovered calculas. Calculas isn't invented, it was discovered.

  • @omniscienceisdead8837
    @omniscienceisdead8837 3 года назад +253

    Within the first 3 minutes I understood more than the 3 months I've been studying in my college, you guys are doing God's work

    • @razalasreficul6902
      @razalasreficul6902 Год назад +11

      Clearly more like "you guys are doing my professors' work"

  • @theopenacademy9102
    @theopenacademy9102 6 лет назад +86

    Khan I really got to thank you for the work youve done! Ive been out of high school for over three years, time i took off to travel and learn skills I was curious about and I have finally decided to attend university this september and I have calc and physics as a major part of the program that I got into and I had forgotten practically everything I learned in high school. I have spent the last two months doing about 7 hours of khan academy a day and for the first time in my life I absolutely love math and physics. Dont get me wrong i did well in highscool math etc... but I didnt understand a thing. I was schooled but I wasnt educated. Taught concepts with no effort in establishing intuition. All the courses that I enjoyed the most in highschool were english, history, social sciences etc.. as most of the learning in those classes is about intuition and critical thinking while all science and math courses were all blind applications. Thank you so much! I have learned more than just math and physics concepts from you but the right way to teach and to educate! So much love!!

  • @ceejay1684
    @ceejay1684 3 года назад +44

    saved my life on this one. teachers just kept throwing formulas and methods of finding derivatives without explaining what derivatives are themselves. thank you, saul

    • @bladeiron
      @bladeiron 4 месяца назад +1

      Your teacher is stuck in the 1950s, because that is what a lot of teachers did before the Calculus Reform of what I believe was in the 1980s.

  • @randyshi72
    @randyshi72 2 года назад +21

    This really helped me understand the true concept of derivatives, not just a bunch of formulas. Thank you so much!

  • @zoombae
    @zoombae 7 лет назад +657

    Is it weird that I Have a slight crush on this man

  • @uniqueh5203
    @uniqueh5203 3 года назад +29

    I'm a master graduate in the faculty of architecture and I can say, it is by far the best explained differential concept lesson I have ever seen in my life !

  • @ameesinghamazing3825
    @ameesinghamazing3825 Год назад +4

    THIS IS THE KIND OF TEACHERS OUR WORLD NEEDS! teachers who are energetic, and have a depth of knowledge. it has been rightly said and holds true," teachers who love to teach, teach children to love learning!"

  • @joedimon
    @joedimon 3 года назад +6

    Just failed my Math Content Praxis and have been feeling really depressed for three days over it. But this video just made me happy again! You really have to find the easiest way for you to engage with the material, for me it's just sitting back and watching Khan teach.

  • @swarajrajpure8073
    @swarajrajpure8073 7 лет назад +42

    Thank you so much Khan Academy! You people are the best in convincing us the tough concepts easy way!

    • @fraddi
      @fraddi 2 года назад

      CALCULUS WAS INVENTED IN INDIA. THE EUROPEANS STOLE IT.

  • @ellastevens5638
    @ellastevens5638 Год назад +7

    Explained in a way that was easy to understand and very helpful for my exam, thank you so much!! I used KA back in middle school and at the time didn't realize how many videos there were over so many topics, now that I have this is going to be a great help for this college student!

  • @kartikeyekhanna2657
    @kartikeyekhanna2657 7 лет назад +8

    Dear Khan Academy!
    Your videos have proved to be the most helpful!! Please post more videos on calculus now!

  • @LoganSnyder
    @LoganSnyder 4 года назад +5

    I've never learned calculus in my life and now I'm a college senior in a machine learning class that DID NOT HAVE any math prerequites, and all the sudden the professor springs calculus on us like we're supposed to know it. Oof. This videos are saving me right now, haha. Thank you!

    • @15justt
      @15justt 4 года назад

      How are you in a course with machine learning and no calculus lmao

    • @LoganSnyder
      @LoganSnyder 4 года назад +4

      @@15justt Like I said the university never put math prerequisites on the course which was pretty dumb. I'm happy to say I passed the class with an A though. I hardly slept during the Spring 2020 semester haha

    • @15justt
      @15justt 4 года назад +1

      @@LoganSnyder same... Coincidentally what kept me up at night was Calculus 2 😂

  • @Tom-sq2nt
    @Tom-sq2nt Год назад +4

    Thank you, it finally make me understand what is derivative. My teacher said the concept wasn't important so she only teach us how to do the exercise

  • @mohamedaminebaccar8095
    @mohamedaminebaccar8095 2 года назад +14

    I finally understood derivative after 3 MONTHS of studying it at class
    You literally saved my life
    Huge thanks 🙏

  • @E7R1I6C
    @E7R1I6C 3 года назад +22

    Lol imagine if teachers explained the building blocks instead of just giving you problems. A year of calc in college and never actually understood it, just learned how to pass tests

  • @gouisedeau
    @gouisedeau 5 лет назад +29

    thought he was playing Counter-strike ..... BTW excellent tutorial, reminder

  • @MichiganPeatMoss
    @MichiganPeatMoss 2 года назад +1

    Stuffed away since some time in a 1988 college class, brought out and clarified in 2022. Many thanks.

  • @fatimah.tulkubra2447
    @fatimah.tulkubra2447 7 дней назад

    Khans academy is the best academy to learn mathematics... I always love to watch videos on Khan academy

  • @paulaan881
    @paulaan881 3 года назад +7

    GOOD TEACHER!!! YOU MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MATH ... Gracias

  • @jadesanjose2520
    @jadesanjose2520 4 года назад +6

    So many a-ha moments... thank you for explaining the things that would seemingly be useless. For example, the definition of delta... that made it all click for me. It's just like the slope formula! I understand why they want us to think about it differently to not get concepts confused but a simple comparison is helpful with using the knowledge we already have and to build on it. I take online classes and the video instructor just kept saying "delta y" and "delta x" which is meaningless to me! Now it all makes sense though. I appreciate that you do this in all your videos. Sometimes I'm like omg its such a long video but well worth it for those like me who LIKE to understand the "whys?" no pun intended... :)

  • @maskedmarvyl4774
    @maskedmarvyl4774 Год назад +2

    The reason the slope line here is also called the "secant line", is because as per geometry, it is a line that intersects a circle (or curve) at a minimum of two points. I don't know if it is being used here to also describe the secant function in trigonometry, i.e. the hypotenuse of a triangle divided by its adjacent side.

  • @niyonezabernard6045
    @niyonezabernard6045 Месяц назад

    I wish I would see him. He puts am end when I feel he is continues. He is a just phenomenon.

  • @MeinCouch123
    @MeinCouch123 2 года назад

    dude, I feel like this is the first time this has made any sense- none of my teachers ever mentioned how dy/dx relate to a graph or the tangent line AT ALL, they just name drop terms without explaining.

  • @ValidatingUsername
    @ValidatingUsername 3 месяца назад

    To maintain the axiom of RS = LS it should be reinforced that d/dx y or f(x) is literally y’ and f’(x) respectively.
    d/dx F(x) = f(x) = int{ f’(x) dx
    F(x) = int{ f(x) dx = int{ f’(x) dx^2
    d/dx^2 F(x) = d/dx f(x) = f’(x)
    To further that notion, as above, the integral sign and dx are just brackets and uSub is a change of base for the brackets.

  • @princessEA7
    @princessEA7 3 месяца назад

    Very good in-depth explanations in this channel! Thank you very much!

  • @RicardoMartinez-jy5lo
    @RicardoMartinez-jy5lo 2 года назад +1

    I took my high school math late as an adult in a community college; so this explanation is very much understandable to me as someone not gifted at all for Math.

  • @tthproductions8076
    @tthproductions8076 7 лет назад +12

    Im using khanacademy rght now :)

  • @quriositysquared1028
    @quriositysquared1028 7 лет назад +6

    You sir, are saving lives(trust me on this one!).

  • @asparagus7014
    @asparagus7014 5 месяцев назад +1

    I love math, but the teachers explain it at such a fast rate that I can't keep up.

  • @alessandromalfa3919
    @alessandromalfa3919 2 года назад +1

    i am from italy. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GREAT JOB!!!! my teacher made me get confused about this interesting subject, but you cleared my mind. Thanks

  • @Jesse_The_Lazy
    @Jesse_The_Lazy Год назад +1

    You did the impossible. I learned a little bit of calculas. Thank you :)

  • @frankenstein3397
    @frankenstein3397 2 года назад +1

    this explanation clears my dy/dx doubt,thanks.

  • @Kate-zz4nk
    @Kate-zz4nk 2 года назад +1

    You explained this extremely well! It actually makes sense now

  • @Albeit_Jordan
    @Albeit_Jordan 6 лет назад +17

    I get confused at almost every use of the terms 'function' and 'derivative' as I thought they were synonymous...
    What am I misunderstanding?
    By extension, I'm not sure I understand f' (f-prime), either.
    Could someone help?

    • @ExplainIttoMe_1
      @ExplainIttoMe_1 6 лет назад +18

      Albeit_Jordan A function is a relationship between one or more variables. For example, f(x) = x+3. A derivative is the instantaneous rate of change of the function at a point. Another way to think of a derivative is the slope of the tangent line at a point of the function. The f-prime notation is just another way to represent the derivative of a function. Hope that helps!

    • @reginaphilange6478
      @reginaphilange6478 4 года назад

      @@ExplainIttoMe_1 I'm so confused, so the derivative is the *y* of x??

    • @ExplainIttoMe_1
      @ExplainIttoMe_1 4 года назад +3

      @@reginaphilange6478 The derivative represents the slope or rate of change of the function at one point. It is represented by f’(x), dy/dx, or y’. The function itself is usually represented by f(x) or y (without the apostrophe, which is read as “prime”).

    • @danielcervantes7826
      @danielcervantes7826 3 года назад +1

      @@reginaphilange6478 Derivative is the "slope" at x

  • @danielwalker2381
    @danielwalker2381 5 лет назад +6

    Visually looking at derivatives doesn't make sense but numerically it makes more sense...idk why...I think it's because you think "oh, x^2 is continually changing more and more and more, so how could the derivative be a line 2x?" oof lol

  • @DylanWoods-kw6km
    @DylanWoods-kw6km 6 месяцев назад

    I'm in 7th grade teaching my self calculus RUclips is the best

  • @WhovianRanger42
    @WhovianRanger42 8 месяцев назад

    It's actually a lot of fun to practice my English listening with Math videos! :)

  • @vadrif-draco
    @vadrif-draco 2 года назад

    That cursor and in general those illustration tools are so impressive!

  • @millenial1986
    @millenial1986 8 месяцев назад

    Not all heroes wear capes - best explanations for given topics you can find - simple, clear, and on point. Thanks for making math interesting and understandable to everybody

  • @megancower1884
    @megancower1884 5 лет назад +5

    Wow. I feel things are about to click.

  • @rajib05555
    @rajib05555 2 месяца назад

    Excellent video thanks a lot!!

  • @caratinawaiters2590
    @caratinawaiters2590 10 месяцев назад

    Your excitement in this video is breathtaking

  • @krishnaca65
    @krishnaca65 3 месяца назад

    very nicely explained sir.

  • @hotball5361
    @hotball5361 Год назад

    Definition of derivatives in this is very understandable and very practically explained.THANKYOU.

  • @johnnamtae9610
    @johnnamtae9610 4 года назад +2

    Your handwriting is so good in these.

  • @chillout-gamezextreme
    @chillout-gamezextreme 7 дней назад +1

    2:10 Avarage rate of change 🎉

  • @julianbastian6723
    @julianbastian6723 3 года назад +1

    our teachers teaches us what to press in the calculator to solve the problems not derivatives

  • @meloniejen8400
    @meloniejen8400 5 лет назад +7

    Amount of likes is the amount of lives Khan has saved

  • @benv5115
    @benv5115 3 месяца назад

    You're a national hero!

  • @michio028yt8
    @michio028yt8 4 месяца назад

    thaks you you teached me enought to continue learning

  • @proudamazighian9334
    @proudamazighian9334 2 года назад

    The first and already the best math channel I found

  • @phatphan1403
    @phatphan1403 3 года назад

    I would have Aced all my AP classes back in 2005 if RUclips instruction videos have existed back then.

  • @melsitler
    @melsitler 10 месяцев назад

    I'm about to start derivatives in my calculus class and I always have to know WHY I'm learning something or I won't want to learn it. THANK YOU!

  • @khalilgueye5097
    @khalilgueye5097 Год назад

    i have nobody to thank for where i am in life, but you, sal khan

  • @vatsayana2004
    @vatsayana2004 Год назад

    My college professors had no knowledge about derivatives, Limits, Calculus and Integration. They were crammers and skilled workers and unnecessarily getting big salary.

  • @TahiraZubair-t3o
    @TahiraZubair-t3o Месяц назад

    My favorite course 😊

  • @bibauu
    @bibauu 6 месяцев назад

    i learnt more in this video abt deriv than 3 years of high school

  • @josephajoseph9535
    @josephajoseph9535 Год назад

    Give this man a manhatten project!❤

  • @MGTMusic
    @MGTMusic 2 года назад

    Thank you ! Thank you ! Thank you ! God bless you!!!

  • @abhyudayaaware8653
    @abhyudayaaware8653 3 года назад +1

    very excited!!!!

  • @conradkotze4615
    @conradkotze4615 Год назад

    This makes so much more sense!

  • @pranavp.a1200
    @pranavp.a1200 7 лет назад +4

    can you please make a video on orbitals.electro negativity and related topics please...thank you

  • @SchwanaCARDHUT
    @SchwanaCARDHUT Год назад

    Bravo 👏👏 et Merci ..................

  • @user-fp5bz2ux2p
    @user-fp5bz2ux2p 9 месяцев назад

    THANK YOU!!! FINALLY!!! I'M GETTING ANSWERS!!

  • @spiderman10101
    @spiderman10101 3 года назад +1

    Well explained

  • @ronaldoggha1801
    @ronaldoggha1801 2 года назад

    what an excellent explanation. Thank you so much

  • @Shivshankar_JEE-ov5wx
    @Shivshankar_JEE-ov5wx 2 года назад

    Sal Sir can really make us learn anything.

  • @collegeupdates2354
    @collegeupdates2354 3 года назад

    Easiest explanation of derivative and not at all boring .

  • @katunduchabala7266
    @katunduchabala7266 Год назад

    Super cool video! Thanks!

  • @user-wy1js8tc1z
    @user-wy1js8tc1z 2 года назад

    Finally got it, thank you for insight!

  • @justinkim7202
    @justinkim7202 10 месяцев назад

    Loving these lessons!

  • @diegoespinoza8997
    @diegoespinoza8997 Год назад

    Could you believe me if I told you that I only now understand the concept of a derivative? And all I had to do was to search for the answer in English? Idk how, but I don't grasp these concepts when I am being taught in Spanish, which ironically, is my mother language, thank you very much for this "humanitarian service", lol.

  • @fataldreidel5846
    @fataldreidel5846 4 года назад

    imagine knowing why people in ancient times needed to invent ways to discover the derivative.....that might form a lot more connections and motivate people to care more about learning this stuff. -Former math study

    • @rajdeepsindhu9268
      @rajdeepsindhu9268 4 года назад

      Absolutely!
      In fact, Grant Sanderson, owner of 3Blue1Brown takes this very approach in his "Essence of Calculus" series. He describes his primary goal as giving the viewers a feeling that they too could have stumbled upon these situations and have invented calculus themselves.

  • @haydenhartmann2034
    @haydenhartmann2034 Год назад

    I am very very excited indeed

  • @user-hc9dk2dl9i
    @user-hc9dk2dl9i 7 лет назад +1

    this helps so much

  • @shahreenchowdhury1086
    @shahreenchowdhury1086 5 лет назад

    Now the organic chemistry tutor channel is good for working out a specific concept but khan academy is good for explaining cocepts.Thanks for th video it was,😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

  • @much_tunsia
    @much_tunsia Год назад

    this was just so good

  • @Lilesme135
    @Lilesme135 7 лет назад +28

    You're voice would be really good to narrate creepypastas.

  • @allywilliams6849
    @allywilliams6849 Год назад

    I’m not even taking pre cal as a senior until next semester, but I’m in AP physics (algebra based), so it might help

  • @chivasluis1
    @chivasluis1 2 года назад

    That was intense. A very good intense.

  • @thewisearchitect
    @thewisearchitect Год назад

    You are so good!

  • @ryannatuor344
    @ryannatuor344 2 года назад

    I've been learning derivatives in highschool for almost two years and only now I realise what the derivative actually is

  • @mhm8742
    @mhm8742 2 года назад

    this was sooooo helpful tysmmm

  • @sebastianr3460
    @sebastianr3460 3 года назад

    I hadn´t understood the concept of rate of change until this video.

  • @Arandomguyat1
    @Arandomguyat1 3 года назад

    brilliantly explained as usual

  • @florentinosanchez3969
    @florentinosanchez3969 2 года назад

    I finally get it, thank you

  • @hamedhasan5843
    @hamedhasan5843 2 года назад

    I'm half done with my college differentiation course and solved many problem without knowing what am I actually doing...then here I heard the phrase "instantaneous rate of change"

  • @ammarchen8850
    @ammarchen8850 3 года назад

    Thank you so much khan academy

  • @Silver_Channel98
    @Silver_Channel98 Месяц назад

    I'm confused about change in x and change in y. Why is that different from looking at a normal slope?

  • @ruixue6955
    @ruixue6955 3 года назад

    0:36 delta is shorthand for change

  • @dhurbarajpuree2992
    @dhurbarajpuree2992 3 года назад

    Great teacher u are

  • @jessye2325
    @jessye2325 3 года назад

    Thank you !

  • @tuannguyenhoang8735
    @tuannguyenhoang8735 3 года назад

    Thanks so much

  • @etoileepanoui6011
    @etoileepanoui6011 4 года назад +1

    I was having a breakdown because I literally couldn’t understand it due to the way my teacher was explaining it. Thank you, so, so much.

  • @jaydencole-yq2vp
    @jaydencole-yq2vp Год назад

    Hello khan academy pls i need your help on this question
    A vessel contains at 1 bar and 20°C a mixture of 1 mole of CO2 and 4 moles of air. Calculate for the
    mixture:
    (i) The masses of CO2, O2 and N2, and the total mass;
    (ii) The percentage carbon content by mass;
    (iii) The apparent molecular weight and the gas constant for the mixture;
    (iv) The specific volume of the mixture.
    The volumetric analysis of air can be taken as 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen.

  • @zalanszabo4382
    @zalanszabo4382 9 месяцев назад +1

    Im edging to this guys voice

  • @samliedtke578
    @samliedtke578 4 года назад

    They way I learned this and it clicked was learning that acceleration is the derivative of velocity.

    • @aladinamami4260
      @aladinamami4260 4 года назад

      and velocity is the derivative of position