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Differentiation and its complement operation, integration, allow engineers to measure and quantify change. Measuring change is essential in engineering practice, which often deals with systems that are changing in some way, by moving, growing, filling up, decaying, discharging, or otherwise increasing or decreasing in some way.
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Khoury, R., Harder, D.W. (2016). Differentiation. In: Numerical Methods and Modelling for Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21176-3_10
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