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Chapter 1
Rate of change
How fast is it changing? The slope of a chord, and what it settles to.
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Average speed is a slope
A car pulls away from a standstill. The graph shows how far it has gone after each second. Drag the second point to t = 3.
The chord joins the two moments. The dashed corner shows how long it took and how far the car went.