Square root differential problem

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Hi,

I working on their text this equation did not make sense to me.

From equation 1 it differentiate second term , I wonder how he got second term of equation 2.

What I think is, what I wrote at the bottom

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but how did they resolve
f(x)=f(a)+f′(a)(x−a)+..
to get second term in eq 2.
 
knockout_artist said:
but how did they resolve
f(x)=f(a)+f′(a)(x−a)+..
to get second term in eq 2.
The chain rule. In numerator of ## f'(\epsilon) ## you have ## 2(y'+\epsilon h) h ##. You then compute ## f'(0) ##.
 
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but then why there is no ϵh' term in denominator in second term in equation 2 ?
It should have stayed there.

and if were to consider ϵ = 0 then why there is still e multiplying second term in equation 2 ?
 
knockout_artist said:
but then why there is no ϵh' term in denominator in second term in equation 2 ?
It should have stayed there.

and if were to consider ϵ = 0 then why there is still e multiplying second term in equation 2 ?
The ## \epsilon ## is from ## (x-a)=(\epsilon-0)= \epsilon ##. Meanwhile, the ## \epsilon h ## in tthe denominator gets put equal to zero as part of taking ## f'(0) ##. (The entire term is the product of both of these which is ## f'(0)(x-a) ##.)
 
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