CONTINU

ITY
CONTINUITY
EXAMPLES:
THE DERIVATIVES
AND
DIFFERENTIATION
OF ALGEBRAIC
FUNCTIONS
DIFFERENTIATION
The process of finding the derivative of a
function is called differentiation and the branch
of calculus that deals with this process is called
differential calculus. Differentiation is an
important mathematical tool in physics,
mechanics, economics and many other
disciplines that involve change and motion.
THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF FINDING
THE DERIVATIVE OF A FUNCTION:
1. By using the increment method
2. By using the differentiation formulas
 THEORIES ON
DIFFERENTIATION
OF ALGEBRAIC
FUNCTIONS
 HIGHER-
ORDER
DERIVATIVES
HIGHER-ORDER
DERIVATIVES
The derivative f ' of a function f is itself a function

and hence may have a derivative of its own. If f '
is differentiable, then its derivative is denoted by f
'' and is called the second derivative of f . As long
as we have differentiability, we can continue the
process of differentiating to obtain the third,
fourth, fifth, and even higher derivatives of f.
 IMPLICIT
DIFFERENTIA
TION
An implicit function is a function in which the dependent
variable has not been given "explicitly" in terms of the
independent variable. To give a function f explicitly is to
provide a prescription for determining the output value of the
function y in terms of the input value x:y = f(x). By contrast,
the function is implicit if the value of y is obtained from x by
solving an equation of the form: f( x,y )=0.