MODULE 1

SINGLE VARIABLE
DIFFERENTIATION
EXAMPLES
• Example 2:A rock fell y=16t2 during the first t
seconds. Calculate the rock’s exact speed at t=1.
Soln. The rock’s speed at t=1 is 32 ft/sec.
EXERCISE PROBLEMS
HOME ASSIGNMENT
 EXERCISE PROBLEMS

Converse need not be true.

1. Differentiate the function and find the slope of the tangent line at
the given value f(x)=x+(9/x) at x=-3

2. Use the formula find the derivative of f(x)=1/

(x+2)
HOME ASSIGNMENT
 continued
• Differentiate the functions and find the slope of the
tangent line at the given value
• 1.Use the formula find the
derivative of
• a)f(x)=x2-3x+4
• b)g(x)=x/(x-1)
 Chapter 3.3
• Formulae:
d
(c )  0 where c is a constant
dx

d n
( x )  n x n 1
dx
d du
(cu )  c
dx dx
d du dv
(u  v)  
dx dx dx
d du dv
(uv)  
dx dx dx

du dv
v u
d u  dx dx
  
dx  v  v2
 Examples
1. Differentiate 3x2
2. Find the derivative of the polynomial
4
y  x3  x 2  5x  1
3
3. Does the curve y  x  2 x have
4 2
2 any horizontal
tangents? If so, where? (Hint : m=0)

( x  1) ( x 2  2 x)
4. Differentiate y
x4
5. Find the first four derivatives of y  x3  3x 2  2
 Exercise problems
• Find the first and second derivatives of the following
Answers
Rate of change
 Problems

• 1. Two cars started from a place, one moving

due north and other due west with equal
speed v. Find the rate at which they were
being separated from each other.
 3.5
1. Find the derivative of
(a) y=5x+cosx (b)y=sinx cosx (c) y=sinx/(1-cosx)
2.

3. Find ds/dt for s=(1+cosect)/(1-cosect)

4. Find dr/dθ for r  4   2 sin 
Home Assignment
3.6- Chain Rule
 Exercise problems
• Find dy/dx for the following:
 Contd.,
• Find the second derivative of
Implicit Differentiation
• A balloon which always remain spherical has a
variable diameter 3/2(2x+3). Determine the rate
of change
dv 27
of volume with respect to x.
 (2 x  3)
2

• Soln. dx 8

• A particle moves along the curve 6 y 2

 x 3
. 2
• Find the points of the curve. Find the points the
curve of which the co-ordinate is changing 8times
as fast the x ordinate.
• Soln. (4,11) and (-4, -31/3)