This week was very complex. I learned a lot of new calculas topics. These topics delt with finding dervatives using the chain rule with anti dervatives and implict differntiation. Along with learning these new skills, I also had to review and use basic algebra skills in order to solve and simplify the techniques used to solve the dervatives for these complex problems. What we did last week, focusing on solving dervatives and anti-deravatives really carried over into the skills of this week. Technically last week were the building blocks that lead up to this week. Next week, I am precicting that we will continue using the concepts and techniques we used this week and last week to continue solving dervatives of different kinds of functions. This week was probably one of the more difficult weeks for me. I found it difficult to keep everything straight and in line when solving for the dervatives. One little mistake could really mess up the whole problem! The chain rule, was the concept I understood the most. All the chain rule is are functions inside of functions. In order to solve these, you just split the dervatives apart into pieces. So you would take f of g (x). Into the dervative of f of the dervative of g times the dervative of g of x. This concept at first was a little difficult. However as we continued to practice and use it with more complex problems I got better at it. The implict differnitation was the concept I had the hardest time understanding. There were lots of steps involved using algebra skills that I tended to get mixed up and throw off my whole equation and answer. However these webstites really helped with my understanding of it better: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~kouba/CalcOneDIRECTORY/implicitdiffdirectory/
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For next week I will need to work on becoming stornger with using my algebra skills to solve complicated complex problems. Overall, my participation was well this week. I particapated and contributed to class disscussions and questions at the beginning of class.
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For next week I will need to work on becoming stornger with using my algebra skills to solve complicated complex problems. Overall, my participation was well this week. I particapated and contributed to class disscussions and questions at the beginning of class.