ElI5: What is the difference between algebra and calculus?
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Roughly speaking calculus is about studying ‘change’. Algebra can can tell you how fast the baseball pitch travelled on average, but calculus can tell you how the velocity of the ball changed and how fast it was going at any point in time. The other area that calculus concerns itself with is the area under a curve. Algebra can tell you the area of well known geometric shapes, but it cannot answer those questions for complex shapes. Algebra is the rudimentary math for calculus however, you will be performing algebra to solve equations in calculus.
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