Section Summary: 3.3

  1. Definitions

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  2. Theorems

    For the following, we assume that f and g are differentiable functions.

  3. Properties/Tricks/Hints/Etc.

    ``The theorems of this section show that any polynomial is differentiable on tex2html_wrap_inline217 and any rational function is differentiable on its domain.''

    Examples:

  4. Summary

    This section is replete with formulas for some of the most important functions we will be working with (these formulas must be committed to memory!). It began with a few special cases, then began extending to general cases: several of these follow our intuition, e.g. the sum rule (the derivative of a sum is the sum of the derivatives); others are not so intuitive (the product and quotient rules are not obvious). There were many examples which demonstrated how one uses these formulas.

    Proofs are given for these special formulas, and, for the most part, are not too complicated. One proceeds directly from the definition of the derivative function as the limit

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    and one hopes that things just fall out!

Problems:

Problems pp. 156-158, #4, 13, 17, 24, 32, 44, 60, 63, 80; Board: 3, 18, 16, 37





LONG ANDREW E
Tue Jan 30 22:49:36 EST 2001