During his 18 months back home he developed many scientific theories and made advancements in math. He built on the knowledge of calculus and created a theory. He built off other peoples work, and made it better. Newton was also very knowledgeable in science which uses calculus in order to calculate motion. Newton ran into a problem as he couldn't calculate the slope at a certain point on a curve. Newton and a partner created a derivative function that would give the slope at any point on a function. The name for calculating the slope of a curve or derivative of a curve or function is called differentiation or differential calculus. Establishing this made is easy to calculate the slope of any point on a curve. All you have to do is plug in x into the function. It is still used today and can be used in a variety of circumstances. For example on a time-distance graph, the slope represents the speed of the object at a specific
During his 18 months back home he developed many scientific theories and made advancements in math. He built on the knowledge of calculus and created a theory. He built off other peoples work, and made it better. Newton was also very knowledgeable in science which uses calculus in order to calculate motion. Newton ran into a problem as he couldn't calculate the slope at a certain point on a curve. Newton and a partner created a derivative function that would give the slope at any point on a function. The name for calculating the slope of a curve or derivative of a curve or function is called differentiation or differential calculus. Establishing this made is easy to calculate the slope of any point on a curve. All you have to do is plug in x into the function. It is still used today and can be used in a variety of circumstances. For example on a time-distance graph, the slope represents the speed of the object at a specific