In this lecture Professor Switkes covers the Power Rule of Calculus. First she explains the Power Rule of Differentiation and then delves into the Power Rule with a Constant and finishes off the lecture portion with the Sum and Difference of the Power Rule.
AP Calculus I/AB > The Power Rule
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The Power Rule
Check whether your
instructor wants you to know the proof of the Power Rule of
Differentiation.
Practice carrying
out the Power Rule on problems involving negative exponents and
fractional exponents.
The derivative of
a sum (or difference) is the sum (or difference) of the individual
derivatives.
A constant factor
can be factored out in front of a derivative.