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Why do derivatives appear so often in physics and other high-level math-based sciences?

Asked by quarkquarkquark (1695points) May 7th, 2009

I see derivatives in relativistic physics all the time, and all I remember from calculus is that their practical use is finding the area under a curve. Why do derivatives seem to be everywhere?

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