Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Rates of Change

Today's lesson shows a simple application of what was covered in class yesterday.  The instantaneous rate of change for a situation (that is the velocity) is simply the slope of the tangent to the curve at some point x = a.

HOMEWORK:  Page 29, #'s 1, 7, 9, 11, 15b and 17

As a reminder, try and stay a day ahead of me in terms of your reading.  We are moving into section 1.4 in class on Wednesday.

1 comment:

  1. hello sir i was trying question 7a and i got different answers then the back of the book for 3 and 8 so can you check..i really think the back of the book is wrong

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