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2.4 2.

BC Calculus

The Chain Rule


dy
is notation for a _________________________ which says that we have the ______________________
dx
for an expression set equal to _____ (the dependent variable), where the ___________________variable is x.
This is read dee why, dee _____ or the derivative of y with ________________ to x. At this point we think
of

dy
dy
as __________________. For reasons that we will soon discuss, we can, will, think of
as a
dx
dx

___________________.
f(x) = (4x3 2x)2

find f ' (x)

f(x) = (4x3 2x)20

find f ' (x)

f(x) = sin(3x2 + 1)

Homework
Page 137
7, 13, 25

find f ' (x)

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A new approach to a new method


For two reasons I tend not to use the notation that we used yesterday, when finding the derivative via the
chain rule.
Reason 1: It is really not _______________________.
Reason ___: When the problems get more complex, like f (x) sin 2 (3x3 x) , this notation becomes
______________.
Therefore I do The Chain Rule mostly in my ________________.
It is all about the word something.

f(x) = sin(3x2 + 1)

find f ' (x)

f (x) 3x3 2x2 1 find f ' (x)

With this approach even our original problem, f(x) = (4x3 2x)2 may be just as easily solved with The Chain
Rule as it is by expanding.

Notation for chain rule using Newtonian notation: If h(x) = f(g(x)) then h ' (x) =

Homework
Page 137 41, 47, 53, 83, 95, 96, 97

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BC Calculus

Implicit Differentiation
y = 3x2 + 6x 9 is an equation written in _________________________ form; a form where the equation is
solved for one variable, in terms of the other. In this case, y in terms of x.
The notation for derivatives of equations written in explicit form makes _____________________.
y = 3x2 + 6x 9

y ' = 6x + 6

or even

f(x) = sec(x) f ' (x) = sec(x) tan(x).

What happens when the equation is not in explicit form? Such as 3x2 + y2 = 3x y3 + 4?
What is the name of the form this equation is written in? __________________________
What does it mean to get the derivative of the equation 3x2 + y2 = 3x y3 + 4?
Not _________________.
In implicitly defined equations we have to be told more ________________________ what
_________________________ to find, i.e. the derivative of what (variable) with respect to what variable.

example: 3x2 + y2 = 3x y3 + 4 find

dy
.
dx

Now what?
What does

d
sin(x) mean?
dx

So what we need to do is to write our question as a

d
question.
dx

2.4 2.6
example: 4x2 -3y = 2 + 4xy2

BC Calculus
find

dy
dx

Homework
Page 146 1, 7, 11, 15, 28

The derivative of f(x) is written as _____ ; the second derivative as _______.


The derivative of y is written as _____ ; the second derivative as ________.
What if we write the first derivative of y as
If

dy
? What is the second derivative? ____________
dx

d
d
expression tells us to find the derivative, then dx
dx

tells us to find the derivative of a

_____________________, or in other words, the _____________________ derivative. This may help make
sense of the above notation.
example: 3x2 + y2 = 3x y3 + 4 find

d2 y
.
dx2

orthogonal

Homework
Page 146 45, 53, 57, 59

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BC Calculus

Related Rates
A point is moving on the graph of y = 3x3 - 5x2 + 2 in such a way that its x-coordinate is changing at the
constant rate of 4 units per second. At what rate is y-coordinate changing, when the x-coordinate of the point
is 2?

Steps to solve related rates questions:


1. Draw

2. Label

3. Write

4. Differentiate

5. Solve

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BC Calculus

A rock is dropped in a pond and the circular ripples created by the rock expand at a rate such that the area
within the ripple(s) increases at a constant rate of 4 in2/min. When the ripple has a radius of 6 inches, find the
rate at which the radius is changing.

Homework
Page 154 7a, 13 (at x = 1), 20
A rocket is traveling vertically such that its height can be found by the equation h = 100t2, where t is time, in
seconds, from lift off and h is in feet. A camera, on the horizontal ground, 1200 feet from the launch site is
tracking the rocket as it flies. At what rate is the angle of elevation of the camera changing, at the moment
the rocket has been flying for 10 seconds?

Homework
Page 154

19, 27a,b,c (use 7 ft. only), 30

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BC Calculus

Coal is falling off of a conveyor belt and forming a conical pile. The height of the pile is always twice the
diameter of the pile. If the coal is falling at the rate of 200 ft3/min, find that rate at which the height of the
pile is increasing when the height is 100 feet.

A five foot tall woman walks away from a 15 foot tall light pole (the light is at the top), at the rate of 4
feet/sec. At the moment the woman is 20 feet from the pole find how fast her shadow is growing. Find how
fast the tip of her shadow is moving.

Homework
Page 154 24, 25, 37

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Mo Related Rates

1. An oil tanker has an accident and oil pours out at the rate of 150 gallons per minute. Suppose that the oil
spreads onto the water in a circle with a thickness of 1/10 of an inch. Given that 1 ft3 equals 7.5 gallons,
determine the rate at which the radius of the spill is increasing when the radius reaches 500 feet.

.767 ft/min

2. A car traveling west toward an intersection is mile from the intersection, and traveling at the rate of 50
mph. Another car is traveling south and heading for the same intersection and is at that same moment mile
from the intersection and traveling at the rate of 40 mph. Find the rate at which the distance between these
two cars is changing at that moment.

-62.6099 mph

3. An artery has a cross-section that is a circle with radius 1.5 cm. Fat deposits are accumulating uniformly
so that the artery opening decreases but remains a circle. Find the rate at which the artery opening (cross
sectional area) is decreasing with respect to the thickness of the fat when the fat is .5 cm thick.

2 cm2/cm

4. A ball is thrown vertically such that its height can be found using the equation h(t) = -16t2 + 70t, where the
units are feet and seconds. A player, 25 feet from the throwing site when the ball is thrown, is running 5
ft/sec toward the throwing site.
1) Find the rate at which the distance between the player and the ball is changing 3 seconds after the ball was
thrown.
2) Will the player reach the throwing/landing site before the ball hits the ground?

-26.455 ft/sec

no

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