Investigate Slopes

Chapter Contents

Differentiation
1. Limits and Differentiation
2. The Slope of a Tangent to a Curve (Numerical)
3. The Derivative from First Principles
4. Derivative as an Instantaneous Rate of Change
5. Derivatives of Polynomials
6. Derivatives of Products and Quotients
Differentiation Java applet
Derivative of a Cubic - Exploration using GeoGebra
7. Differentiating Powers of a Function
8. Differentiation of Implicit Functions
9. Higher Derivatives
10. Partial Derivatives
Differentiation Problem Solver

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