Class Info

  • Date: Mon Oct 30
  • Meeting Info: 12p-1:40p, N700

Announcements

WebWork:

  • “Derivatives – Trigonometric” — due Friday, Nov 3
  • “Derivatives – Chain Rule” – due Thurs, Nov 9

Topics

We reviewed the derivatives of the six trigonmetric functions (Sec 3.5) and outlined some of the exercises in the WebWork set “Derivatives – Trigonometric.”

We then reviewed functions which are compositions of functions, and introduced the Chain Rule–a differentiation rule of finding the derivatives of such composite functions:

We went through on exercise from the “Derivatives – Chain Rule” WebWork set:

Here is a video which explains the Chain Rule in much the same way as I did in class, and goes through additional examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kScLENCXLg

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