Implicit Derivatives
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- Subject: [mg26193] Implicit Derivatives
- From: "Tom De Vries" <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:02:11 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello everyone, I am teaching a high school calculus class and we are using Mathematica for part of the course work. In the book CalcLabs with Mathematica they give a procedure for finding an Implicit Derivative. Here is an example with a familiar equation.... eq = (3 x y == x^3 + y^3) eqNew = eq /. y -> y[x] deqNew = D[eqNew, x] soln = Solve[deqNew, y'[x]] I am wondering if there are other ways to get a similar result to this. This method makes sense to me but I wondered if there was a more direct approach? I could not find any information using the Help feature but perhaps I was just looking in the wrong places? Thanks, Tom De Vries Alberta, Canada