Quote of the Day: "Alcohol and Calculus Don't Mix; Never Drink and Derive." Objectives: The student will prove the derivative formulas for all six trigonometric functions. The student will take derivatives of functions involving the trigonometric functions. 1. Collect Homework. 2. Recall: and the Definition of the Derivative. 3. Derivatives of the six trig functions Now determine the derivatives of cot(x), sec(x) and csc(x) using the quotient rule and the derivatives of the sin(x), cos(x), and tan(x). 4. Examples 5. Assignment: Study example #4 on page 202 p. 202 (1, 3, 4, 9, 11, 14, 19, 22, 26a, 29a, 36, 41) |