In this laboratory notebook you will be using Mathematica's built-in derivative taker to investigate a few of the basic shortcut rules used when taking derivatives symbolically (as opposed to the numerical and graphical techniques that we have utilized so far.) You will be especially looking at the Product Rule and the Chain Rule.
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If you happen to be feeling particularly lost, or insecure about the results you obtained in the Mathematica notebook that you just completed, then you may click on the button on the left to go and check the answers you should have gotten. (Note: Only the answers, the Output cells, are given. It's still up to you to determine how these answers were found.) |
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