What is Calculus?

Well, it is the study of the continuous rates of the change of quantities. It is the study of how various quantities change with respect to other quantities. For example, one would like to know how distance changes with respect to (from now onwards we will use the abbreviation w.r.t) time, or how time changes w.r.t speed, or how water flow changes w.r.t time etc. You want to know how this happens continuously. We will see what continuously means as well.