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  2. Related rates - Wikipedia

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    Express dc/dt using chain rule in terms of dx/dt and dy/dt; Substitute in x, y, dx/dt, dy/dt; Simplify. Choose coordinate system: Let the y-axis point North and the x-axis point East. Identify variables: Define y(t) to be the distance of the vehicle heading North from the origin and x(t) to be the distance of the vehicle heading West from the ...

  3. Implicit function - Wikipedia

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    It is impossible to algebraically express y explicitly as a function of x, and therefore one cannot finddy / dx ⁠ by explicit differentiation. Using the implicit method, ⁠ dy / dx ⁠ can be obtained by differentiating the equation to obtain =, where ⁠ dx / dx ⁠ = 1. Factoring out ⁠ dy / dx ⁠ shows that =, which yields the result

  4. Differentiation of trigonometric functions - Wikipedia

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    Using implicit differentiation and then solving for dy/dx, the derivative of the inverse function is found in terms of y. To convert dy/dx back into being in terms of x, we can draw a reference triangle on the unit circle, letting θ be y.

  5. Implicit function theorem - Wikipedia

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    The unit circle can be specified as the level curve f(x, y) = 1 of the function f(x, y) = x 2 + y 2.Around point A, y can be expressed as a function y(x).In this example this function can be written explicitly as () =; in many cases no such explicit expression exists, but one can still refer to the implicit function y(x).

  6. Triple product rule - Wikipedia

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    Suppose a function f(x, y, z) = 0, where x, y, and z are functions of each other. Write the total differentials of the variables = + = + Substitute dy into dx = [() + ()] + By using the chain rule one can show the coefficient of dx on the right hand side is equal to one, thus the coefficient of dz must be zero () + = Subtracting the second term and multiplying by its inverse gives the triple ...

  7. Collocation method - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a collocation method is a method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and integral equations.The idea is to choose a finite-dimensional space of candidate solutions (usually polynomials up to a certain degree) and a number of points in the domain (called collocation points), and to select that solution which satisfies the ...

  8. Differential of a function - Wikipedia

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    The set of all velocities through a given point of space is known as the tangent space, and so df gives a linear function on the tangent space: a differential form. With this interpretation, the differential of f is known as the exterior derivative , and has broad application in differential geometry because the notion of velocities and the ...

  9. Explicit and implicit methods - Wikipedia

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    For such problems, to achieve given accuracy, it takes much less computational time to use an implicit method with larger time steps, even taking into account that one needs to solve an equation of the form (1) at each time step. That said, whether one should use an explicit or implicit method depends upon the problem to be solved.