antiderivative
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of antiderivative
First recorded in 1940–45; anti- + derivative
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Use substitution to find the antiderivative of ∫ z z2 − 5dz.
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Notice that we did not include the “+ C” term when we wrote the antiderivative.
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The antiderivative of a vector-valued function appears in applications.
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The antiderivative of a vector-valued function is found by finding the antiderivatives of the component functions, then putting them back together in a vector-valued function.
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Second, we show how power series can be used to evaluate integrals when the antiderivative of the integrand cannot be expressed in terms of elementary functions.
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