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I recently read a paper on fractional derivatives. That is how to take derivatives of fractional order rather than the usual integral order. The paper made perfect sense to me, however I wondered:
1) Are there geometric interpretations of fractional derivatives? Kind of like how first derivatives give us slopes of tangent lines and second derivatives tell us about a functions concavity.
2) Are there physicsal applications?
Thanks to anyone who has answers or can point me in the right direction.
1) Are there geometric interpretations of fractional derivatives? Kind of like how first derivatives give us slopes of tangent lines and second derivatives tell us about a functions concavity.
2) Are there physicsal applications?
Thanks to anyone who has answers or can point me in the right direction.