Review of Derivatives

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If you’re interested in reviewing the rules of derivatives I thought I’d give you a collection of problems so you can test your knowledge.  This is optional and will not be collected or graded.

Review of Derivatives:  Chapter 3 Review, Page 262, #1-41 odd

You can check the answers in the back of the book.  These examples cover all the main derivative rules:  powers, roots, exponents, logarithms, trig functions, the chain rule, the product rule, the quotient rule, and implicit differentiation.  If you can do these, you’re all set (if you can do 90% of them, you’re still doing fine).

If you’d like to focus on a particular topic (like the chain rule, for example) in more detail, look at the appropriate section of the book — all the derivative rules are covered in Chapter 3, and the chapter titles should give you a good idea of where to look (read through the section, paying special attention to any examples, and to any rules with red boxes around them, and then try a few odd-numbered problems from the exercises following the section).

If you have trouble with any of this, please let me know — either send me an email, or leave a reply to this post.  Good luck!