Rates of change

How sharply one quantity responds when you nudge another, how that response is measured, and what a slope can and cannot promise about anywhere but the point you measured it.

Read in order

  1. A slope is a local statementWhen one quantity depends on another, how sharply does it respond to a small nudge, and what does an answer measured at one point promise about anywhere else?

Under construction

This arc is being written. The list below is what it will cover, and it may still change.

  1. Chaining two responsesWhat happens to the chain rule when one value feeds two routes at once and their contributions have to be added.