This week we had a quiz over the chain rule and the derivative of a trigonometric functions.I really enjoyed the fact that it was all a continuation of what we learned from previous plus a few information.On Monday,we have a quiz and I am psyched for it because I know I will do well with some thorough preparation
The hardest thing we learnt this week was derivatives of an inverse trig function.I thought it was difficult for me because of the adjustment to trigonometric functions,which seemed to involve more steps.However,as the week went by I began to find a trick for those functions and it was plugging in the function which was in the certain trig function into that original trigonometric function and then taking the derivative of that function which was in the trig function.Ultimately,I would end up multiplying the function together.I thought what was really neat about this whole trick was that for the equations which had x in it if I took the derivative of that x I would get one which would render it useless.
All in all,I really enjoyed this week although I had some up and downs with certain things.Right now,I am on to studying in hope that I do well on the test on Monday because I feel like I have been moving along pretty well the past couple of weeks when it comes to not only learning calculus but also doing my homework on time.
The hardest thing we learnt this week was derivatives of an inverse trig function.I thought it was difficult for me because of the adjustment to trigonometric functions,which seemed to involve more steps.However,as the week went by I began to find a trick for those functions and it was plugging in the function which was in the certain trig function into that original trigonometric function and then taking the derivative of that function which was in the trig function.Ultimately,I would end up multiplying the function together.I thought what was really neat about this whole trick was that for the equations which had x in it if I took the derivative of that x I would get one which would render it useless.
All in all,I really enjoyed this week although I had some up and downs with certain things.Right now,I am on to studying in hope that I do well on the test on Monday because I feel like I have been moving along pretty well the past couple of weeks when it comes to not only learning calculus but also doing my homework on time.