Writing Assignment for Tuesday, October 21st  

 

Please give short answers to each of the following questions by emailing me through the link for your section:  8 Section           10 Section

 

  1. What¹s nice about the function e^x (e to the power of x) in terms of its derivative?
  2. How do we find the derivative of ln(x) (the natural log of x)?
  3. There is a polynomial function with derivative equal to x^2, x^3, x^-5, and so on.  Why does no polynomial have derivative equal to x^-1?