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Math 124 – Week 7
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Reading Text – 3.8, 3.10
Worksheet    Website ArchivedMidterms
Homework Website week7probs.pdf
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Student Guide:

Week 7 is devoted to more applications of the chain rule. Section 3.10 on "related rates" will be the most challenging.
  • A technique called "logarithmic differentiation" uses properties of logarithms to calculate certain complicated derivatives; this is presented in section 3.8.
  • Many application problems involve two or more quantities that change with respect to time. If we can initially relate these changing quantities by an equation, then we can differentiate the equation to relate the rates of change of the quantities. Section 3.10 will focus on problems of this sort. This tends to be one of the hardest topics in the course for students.
  • Friday will probably be devoted to review for the 2nd midterm, which is scheduled for next Tuesday.
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