Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Derivative, part 2

We finish up Chapter 3 by adding one more general derivative rule and taking the derivatives of inverses, exponential and logarithmic functions and functions for which we cannot solve for y.

10/02  Post test (3.6) HW p.153/1-27 odd
10/04  More Chain Rule (3.6)
           HW p.153-155/30-48 by 3's, 53-55, 59, 61, 62, 67-69, 76-79
10/05  Implicit Differentiation (3.7)
           HW p.162-164/3-42 by 3's, 43, 45, 48-53, 56, 65

10/08  Columbus Day - no school
10/09  Derivatives of Inverse Trig Functions (3.8)
           HW p.170-171/3-27 by 3's, 28, 29, 31-34, 47-49
10/11  Derivatives of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (3.9)
           HW p.178-180/3-42 by 3's, 49-51, 53, 64, 65
10/12  Log Differentiation (3.9) and Parametric Differentiation (3.6)
           HW p.179/43-48, 52, 54-56  and  p.153-155/41-49 odd, 50-52, 63, 66
           Here is a worksheet that puts the parametric/vector ideas together.

10/15  Review and Extra Problems
10/16  Chapter 3 Test
           HW read 4.1 and do p.193-194/1-12