Differentiation Techniques

[aggfx]

Hey all-

I typed up this little cheat sheet to help me with my learning of derivatives so I though someone else might want to use it for reference. I plan to add to it some examples as well as log and e rules. I will keep you updated if there is any interest in those as well.

Enjoy!

[uman]

If you need a cheat sheat to remember that the derivative of a constant is zero, you should work on understanding the concept of a derivative better.

[aggfx]

Clearly, the point of including that rule is for the sake of a complete list.

[snipez90]

Not a bad list but hopefully people can actually prove everything on there before just applying it. Admittedly after working a decent number of examples, nothing really needs to be memorized. Also I would put the "extended power rule" after the chain rule ;).

[aggfx]

That may be a good thing to show (the proofs). I plan to build a little tutorial on derivs. I will post it when I am done.

[Kurdt]

For those who aren't aware, Hootenanny has a good thread with a lot of the results (and more) derived in it.

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=139690