Reflection #4

Ryan Chauvin
Reflection #4
Another good intense week of calculus has gone by and I’m starting to understand everything a lot easier. We are continuing to learn about derivatives and I finally just fully understand the long way of solving them. It is pretty simple. To solve it you do these formulas. The formula for a secant line is this m= f(c+deltax)- f(c)/ deltax. This is the secant slope lim f(x+deltax)/deltax deltax-->0. The three main steps to remember in doing this is expand cancel and factor out. Now we are doing the shortcut way which is suppose to be easier but I am struggling a little bit on how to do it. The constant rule is the derivative of any constant is zero. You also need to know how the power rule. The power rule you take the exponent and bring it to the front of the x and take the number that was the exponent and subtract it by one. An example of this is y=2 the derivative is 0.The other rule is the power rule. Power Rule-take the exponent and bring it to the front of the variable, then take the exponent and subtract it by one
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