This week in calc we took our study of derivatives a few steps further. Starting out we learned a much less time consuming and tedious way to take the derivative of a function. You can find the derivative by multiplying the coefficient of a term in a function by its exponent and subtracting one from the exponent in each term of a function. This technique has sped up the process so much that doing more complex problems is much less intimidating. We also learned how to take anti derivatives of a function, which is just the process explained about and adding +c at the end. This lesson had made calculus as a whole much less intimidating to me as I find my rhythm in this class for the year. To end the week it felt like I was transported back to precalc as we looked at derivative rules for trig functions. I personally enjoy looking at and using trigonometric identities and today's lesson for once made a lot of sense right off the bat.
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