GaDaMIt
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I'm a preliminary student and ive just started a new exercise under the derivative topic in the cambridge book - Rates of Change
im just a little stuck at the moment on the first question
"Given the y=x^3 + x, differentiate with respect to time, using the chain rule"
Firstly i didnt use the chain rule .. i just differentiated the terms and got
dy/dx=3x^2+1
but the answer is
dy/dt=(3x^2+1)dx/dt
someone care to explain this to me? im not all that confident with derivatives at the moment, and any help will be greatly appreciated
im just a little stuck at the moment on the first question
"Given the y=x^3 + x, differentiate with respect to time, using the chain rule"
Firstly i didnt use the chain rule .. i just differentiated the terms and got
dy/dx=3x^2+1
but the answer is
dy/dt=(3x^2+1)dx/dt
someone care to explain this to me? im not all that confident with derivatives at the moment, and any help will be greatly appreciated