In this laboratory notebook you will be investigating the relationship between the graph of a function, and the graph of its derivative. Since we have yet to find a good way of getting the formula of a derivative function, we'll be using approximate derivatives found by using the "Quick Method" discussed in class in which we simply use a very small value for h in the definition of the derivative, rather than taking the limit.
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