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Example Question #21 : Implicit Differentiation
Use implicit differentiation to calculate the equation of the line tangent to the equation
at the point (2,1).
Differentiate both sides of the equation:
Simplify:
Use implicit differentiation to differentiate the y term:
Subtract 4x from both sides of the equation:
Divide both sides of the equation by 2y:
Plug in the appropriate values for x and y to find the slope of the tangent line:
Use slope-intercept form to solve for the equation of the tangent line:
Plug in the appropriate values of x and y into the equation, to find the equation of the tangent line:
Solve for b:
Solution:
Example Question #21 : Implicit Differentiation
Find
, where is a function of x.
To find
Taking of both sides of the equation, we get
and the derivatives were found using the following rules:
Note that for every derivative of a function with z, the additional term appears; this is because of the chain rule, where z=g(x), so to speak, for the function it appears in.
Using algebra to solve, we get
Example Question #612 : Derivatives
Find the normal line of the curve
at the point
Use implicit differentiation to calculate the slope of the tangent line:
Simplify:
Subtract x from both sides of the equation:
Divide both sides of the equation by 2y:
Plug in the x and y values from the point
into the equation, to calculate the slope of the tangent line:Take the negative reciprocal of the slope of the tangent line to calculate the slope of the normal line:
Plug the slope of the normal line into point slope form:
Add
to both sides to isolate y:Simplify the equation:
Simplify further:
Solution:
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Example Question #42 : Numerical Approximations To Definite Integrals
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