Sunday, November 8, 2009

post 12

Twelfth week of calculus. Monday-Study Tuesday-Study Wednesday-Test Thursday-Test Friday-LEARN!

Our test was on everything we did this whole year. I actually understand a lot of things now that we reviewed for everything for two days. The things I didn't understand on the test were just the formulas. I knew how to work all the related rates and angle of elevation problems but I couldn't remember any of the formulas.But I finally did learn them, so here they are.
CONE- V=3/4(pi)(h)(r^2)
CUBE- V=E^3
RECTANGLE- A=1/2(B)(H)
SQUARE- A=L x W P=2(L+W)
SPHER- V=1/3(pi)(r^3)
CIRCLE- A=2(pi)(r)

how to find a tangent line:

1. Take derivative
2. Plug x in to derivative to find slope
3. Plug slope into original to find y-intercepts
4. plug in slope and point into the equation (y-y1)=m(x-x1).

I don't really understand linearization. Well, i really just dont remember it. Because we didn't have that much practice, but hopefully we'll be going over it next week. If anyone did understand it please refresh my memory.

1 comment:

  1. Linearization
    any time we see the word APPROXIMATE we will be using linerarization.
    For example:
    Approximate the tangent line to y=(x)^2 at x=5
    that means that dy/dx is 2x
    so when we plug in 5 for x we get 2(5) which is 10. 10 is our slope!. Now we will take the original and plug in 5 for x giving us y=(5)^2, so that's y=25.
    Since the equation for Linerarization is f(x) = f(c) + f'(c)*(x-c) we will plug in what we have into the equation. we know that f(c)=25...f'(c)=2...and c=5 so when we plug in we get>>>> f(x)=25+2(x-5)

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