12 SL Derivatives

Complete the following questions before our next class.

Exercise 14E questions 1 i and ii, 2, 3ab, 4b, 5ab, and 6.

Note that in some of these questions you’ll see an alternative notation for the derivative, \(\frac{dy}{dx}\). Whether you use this, or \(f'(x)\), usually depends on how the original function is given to you. So, both \(f(x)=x^2\) and \(y=x^2\) describe the same function (with derivative \(2x\), as we saw in class), but if we’re starting with \(f(x)=x^2\), then we’d write \(f'(x)=2x\), while if we’re start with \(y=x^2\), we’d write \(\frac{dy}{dx} = 2x\).

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