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Postby Mangafanatic » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:01 pm

So, yeah. I hate this stuff. :(

Anyways, guys, I am so confused. Right now, we're talking about implicit differentiation, and I'm completely lost. The problem I'm trying to work through is 2^2+[square root of (st)]+2t^3-5t=0. I'm supposed to find velocity ds/dt. How on earth do I do that? 0__o Please, help me, someone.
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Postby Puritan » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:30 pm

Yay calculus! :P

If you take the problem and differentiate by t it becomes:

(4+(st)^(1/2)+t^3-5t)dt=0dt

which becomes (using the product rule)

(1/2)*(st)^(-1/2)*(t*(ds/dt)+s))+3t^2-5=0

solving for ds/dt you get

ds/dt=(3*t^2-5*(st)^(1/2))*2+s

now you just need to solve the original equation for s (using algebra) and plug that solution into this equation. It's going to be a bit messy, but from this point on it's more messy algebra than any difficult calculus

Now, if you're confused about the product rule (i.e. if you have to differentiate two things multiplied by each other) it goes like this:

d(u*v)/dx=du/dx*v+dv/dx*u

Also, you could be having problems with differentiating (s*t)^1/2. In that case, the rule is d((u*v)^w)/dx = d(y^w)/dx where y=u*v. d(y^w)/dx = w*(y^(w-1))*dy/dx

I hope that helps! I'd be happy to try to give you more advice, but I think you can take it from here.
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Postby Mithrandir » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:08 pm

O.O

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Postby Mangafanatic » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:10 pm

That does help. Except I screw up. The equation was actually 2s^2+[the square root of (st)]-4=3t

Sorry!
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Postby Yumie » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:20 pm

Mangafanatic wrote:That does help. Except I screw up. The equation was actually 2s^2+[the square root of (st)]-4=3t

Sorry!


Oh wow. I think Osaka needs a proof-reading tutorial instead of a calculus one. That's terrible.
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Postby Mangafanatic » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:00 pm

Yumie wrote:Oh wow. I think Osaka needs a proof-reading tutorial instead of a calculus one. That's terrible.


Hey. No picking on me. I've been working on Calculus for 2 hours and I've gotten NOTHING done. Yeah. I'm somewhat. . . irked.
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Postby Warrior4Christ » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:59 pm

Mangafanatic wrote:That does help. Except I screw up. The equation was actually 2s^2+[the square root of (st)]-4=3t

Sorry!

Yeah, sure. That was just the next question! :P

2*2(s ^1) * ds/dt + 1/2*(st)^(-1/2) * (ds/dt * t + s * dt/dt) = 3*dt/dt

=> 4s * ds/dt + (ds/dt *t + s)/(2 * (st) ^ (1/2) = 3

The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Postby Mithrandir » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:29 pm

Warrior4Christ wrote:Yeah, sure. That was just the next question! :P

:lol:

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Postby Icarus » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:18 pm

Warrior4Christ wrote:The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Postby Puritan » Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:27 pm

Mithrandir wrote:O.O

29 minutes. Wow Puritan. Just... Wow.



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For some odd reason, I really love calculus. I can't explain it, but I really like it. When I saw this post I was oddly thrilled to be able to help someone solve a calculus problem. I admit, I'm a nutty engineer, but at least I'm easy to please...
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Postby Yumie » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:10 pm

Puritan wrote:*looks left* *looks right* Can you keep a secret?
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For some odd reason, I really love calculus. I can't explain it, but I really like it. When I saw this post I was oddly thrilled to be able to help someone solve a calculus problem. I admit, I'm a nutty engineer, but at least I'm easy to please...


So, when I take calculus next year, I know who go to to ask questions. . .

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Postby Swordguy » Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:11 pm

i would have to agreee with you the calc is fun...once you get the hang of it, make sure you know what is going on though before you move on...though it may take more time it makes things alot easyer
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