Mig-El Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Hi, well I'm not so sure about other countries but around here math is very much hated. That's not my case. The thing is that my teacher apllied us this exam with stuff we didn't even practice at all, he just mentioned the formulas and explained the tiniest example of each, now (after the exam) he's started with it and he just gave us an exercise and told me to do it in 2 ways, with the formula and with logarithm propertys, can you tell me how to do it with the second cause the way I did was wrong according to him. y= x√x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Escapist Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 What the hell are you talking about>? Im good at maths but I'm probably not advanced enought to understand what you are talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsSeverusSnape Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 No maths for me, i'm taking translation :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mig-El Posted November 26, 2008 Author Share Posted November 26, 2008 What the hell are you talking about>? Im good at maths but I'm probably not advanced enought to understand what you are talking about. Please don't get me wrong, what I meant is that back here like 2 off 40 studentes like math hahah, I don't know in other places but around here people don't like math that much, I do like math and I'm good actually but I'm having a little problem here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pris Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Mmmmmm..... derivatives...... that means you're in high school, right?? But I don't think I remember my maths well enough to help........... sorry....... :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnycp17 Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 I find it so fascinating that we are all from different parts of the world, yet we can come together over our overpowering lack of knowledge in mathematics!:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Haha hmmm I just learned this stuff...I just tried to solve it and took a picture so give me a minute as I upload the work. :lol: You wanted the derivative, right? Because that's what I did, you mentioned logarithms and it confused me for a second. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pris Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Finally!!!!!! Someone that can help him while the rest of us just spam the thread!!!!!!! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Haha I am probably the LAST person he'd want help from though...I suck at math. :P But I'll try. Mig-El, do you happen to have the answer of the problem? To make sure that I'm actually right? Haha I have solved this problem numerous times in class but I can't ever remember the exact answer. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 si me explicas en español lo que vas a hacer te puedo ayudar, oh yes I remember! tienes que convertir a logaritmo todos, y de ahi ya con las propiedades logaritmicas lo sacas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 *exhale* okay, here it goes: So you start out with the original problem. You want the derivative, right? 1. Another way to write the square root of x is x to the 1/2 power. This will make getting the derivative easier. 2. Since the x is now in parentheses when I put it in the 1/2 power, it is an indication of using the chain rule. You probably already know what that is, but you multiply the 1/2 with the first x, and subtract 1 from the exponent. So now it's 1/2x (x) to the -1/2 power. Along with that, you have to multiply the whole thing with the derivative of the x in the parentheses, which is 1, so nothing changes. 3. I rewrote it so that the answer would be a fraction...1/2x turns into x/2....and since anything with a negative exponent goes into the denominator....it turns back to the square root, but in the bottom. So the answer would be x/2 square root x.... ...I think. :lol: I hope that makes sense and I hope it's right. You'll have to tell me haha. Oh, and sometimes teachers don't like it when the radicals are in the denominator (I don't care, it's more work for me...:P) But at the bottom I simplified it more so that there's no radical at the bottom...but if that's not important then don't worry about it. Geez, I suck at math, haha. But I hope I was right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsSeverusSnape Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Mathemawhat? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 If you need the second derivative, then tell me and I'll have an explanation of that as well if you need it. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnycp17 Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 *exhale* okay, here it goes: So you start out with the original problem. You want the derivative, right? 1. Another way to write the square root of x is x to the 1/2 power. This will make getting the derivative easier. 2. Since the x is now in parentheses when I put it in the 1/2 power, it is an indication of using the chain rule. You probably already know what that is, but you multiply the 1/2 with the first x, and subtract 1 from the exponent. So now it's 1/2x (x) to the -1/2 power. Along with that, you have to multiply the whole thing with the derivative of the x in the parentheses, which is 1, so nothing changes. 3. I rewrote it so that the answer would be a fraction...1/2x turns into x/2....and since anything with a negative exponent goes into the denominator....it turns back to the square root, but in the bottom. So the answer would be x/2 square root x.... ...I think. :lol: I hope that makes sense and I hope it's right. You'll have to tell me haha. Oh, and sometimes teachers don't like it when the radicals are in the denominator (I don't care, it's more work for me...:P) But at the bottom I simplified it more so that there's no radical at the bottom...but if that's not important then don't worry about it. Geez, I suck at math, haha. But I hope I was right! You lost me I just got lost!... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Haha yeah well I hate calculus. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnycp17 Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Haha yeah well I hate calculus. :P I'm still having trouble with Geometry:confused: isosceles what now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puzzling Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Is this what you're looking for? http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/8795/derivsm4.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lore Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 I hate maths too :lol: but it's nice that Annie helped him :nice: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Hill Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Whoa :shocked2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Are you in Calculus, Mig-El? I don't remember using logarithms to find derivatives...unless there is such thing as taking a derivative of a logarithm...which I haven't done yet so whoops. :P Haha thanks, Lore, but I don't think I helped. :lol: I might be talking about a completely different thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 uh sorry I don't know how to do it with 2 radicals.... or did you mean this? y= x √x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnycp17 Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 uh sorry I don't know how to do it with 2 radicals I don't even know what a radical is:\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 ok so if they are asking you to use logarythms it's because it is an exponentail equation, is it? if it is not, then sorry but I can't help me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puzzling Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Starlight - you did a little mistake there. You got to multiply sqrt(x) with x before differentiating. http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/321/deriv2iz7.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Oooh did I? Could you explain it a little bit? :curtain: I probably did screw up, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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