MATH 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Differentiable Function, Farad
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We previously considered the derivative of a function f at a xed number a : We can change the value of a and replace it with x, we will obtain: Figure 2 f"(a) = lim (h > 0) [f(x+h)-f(x)]/h (b) Chapter 2 limits and derivatives f x x 3 x. , nd a formula for (b) illustrate by comparing the graphs of. Which is useful to us as we attempt to nd the derivative of higher functions. Example 2 function f" is called the derivative of f because it has been derived from f by the limiting operation. has horizontal tangents and. Example: if f(x) = x^3 - x, nd a formula for f"(x) using the de nition of a derivative. (b) we use a graphing device to graph f these graphs serve as a check on our work in part (a).