So it’s week 5 already. Only one more week until the end of the marking period. Only one more week until I’m ⅙ of the way done with this class. Yay! This week we talked about derivatives. They seem fairly simple. I mean they can be a lot of work with the 4 step process but oh well, at least it’s easy work. I thought it was kind of funny when Cresswell broke down the derivative equation thing into the four steps. At first I thought it would be some like big, crazy, helpful thing but nope. It was literally the equation broken up into its components. I still wrote it all down though. I started it so I had to finish it.
The 4 steps are:
The 4 steps are:
- Find f(x+h)
- write f(x+h)-f(x)
h - write f(x+h)-f(x)h
- Take the limit of that as h->0