# Antiderivatives An antiderivative is useful when you know the rate of change, and you want to find a point from that rate of change > A function $F$ is said to be an *antiderivative* of $f$ if $F'(x) = f(x)$ ## Examples > Find the antiderivative of the function $y = x^2$ 1. We know that $f'(x) = 2x$ ## Formulas | Differentiation Formula | Integration Formula | | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- | | $\dfrac{d}{dx} x^n = nx^{x-1}$ | $\int x^n dx = \dfrac{1}{n+1}x^{n+1}+ C$ for $n \ne -1$ | | $\dfrac{d}{dx} kx = k$ | $\int k \space dx = kx + C$ |