Derivatives
Applications
Concepts
Product/Quotient
Chain
100

The derivative of y = 3x2 - 4

What is dy/dx = 6x

100

The slope of the tangent line of y = 5x2 - 4x at x = 1.

What is 6

100

The slope of the curve is found using

What is the first derivative?

100

The simplified first derivative of g(x)=(x2-4x)(x3+1)

What is g'(x) = 5x4-16x3+2x-4

100

The first derivative of f(x)=(x2+1)1/2

What is f'(x)=x/(x2+1)1/2

200

The first derivative of y = sqrt(x)

What is y' = 1/ (2sqrt(x) )

200

The equation of the tangent line to y = 2x3 - 6

What is y - 10 = 24(x-2)

200

The rule used to find the derivative for a function of a function

what is the chain rule

200

The simplified first derivative of f(x)=(6x2+x-8)(x2+x-2)

What is f'(x)= 4x3+6x2-18x-10

200

The slope of the tangent to f(x)=5/(2x-x2)1/3 at x=1

what is 0

300

The second derivative of y = 6x4 - 1/2 x2 - 10

What is y' = 72x2 - 1

300

The coordinates of the points on the graph of f(x)=x3-7x where the slope of the tangent is 5

What is (2,-6) and (-2, 6)

300

The names of the two European men given credit for discovering/inventing calculus at the same time, in different places.

Who are Newton and Liebniz
300

The first derivative of h(x)=(x2-1)/(x3-8)

what is h'(x) = (x4-3x2+16x)/(x3-8)2

300

The equation of the tangent to y=(x3-4x2)3 at x=3

What is y=729x-2196

400

The second derivative of y=3/(x1/3)

What is y=4/(3x7/3)

400

The values of a and b for f(x)=ax3+bx2+3x-2 given that f(2)=10 and f'(-1)=14

what is 2 and -5/2

400

The number of times you can derive f(x)=xn

What is n+1

400

The second derivative of f(x)=(x2+1)1/2

What is f''(x)=1/(x2+1)(3/2)

400

My Birthday

what is December 5

500

The acceleration of a falling rock with height

 h(t)=-4.9t2+3t+20 at t=2 seconds

what is -9.8 m/s2

500

A yogurt company estimates that the revenue from selling x containers of yogurt is 4.5x, and the cost for producing x containers is C(x)=0.0001x2+2x+3200.

The marginal profit from selling 4000 containers of yogurt and the significance of this number:

What is $2.80 and "the increase in profit as the company moves from selling its 4000th container to its 4001st container. NOT the profit from the 4000th container.

500

The condition for an object to be slowing down

What is a(t) x v(t) < 0

500

The points on the curve y=(x2)/(2x+5) where the tangent line is horizontal

What are (0,0) and (-5,-5)

500
The points on the curve y=x2(x3-x)2 where the tangent line is horizontal
What are (-1,0), (-1/sqrt2, 1/16), (0,0), (1/sqrt2, 1/16), (1,0)