MA101: Single-Variable Calculus I

3.3: The Product Rule

• Whitman College: David Guichard's "Calculus, Chapter 3: Rules for Finding Derivatives, Section 3.3: The Product Rule" URL

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  Read Section 3.3 (pages 60 and 61). The naïve assumption is that the derivative of a product of two functions is the product of the derivatives of the two functions. This assumption is false. In this reading, you will see that the derivative of a product is slightly more complicated, but that it follows a definite rule, called the product rule.

• Whitman College: David Guichard's "Calculus, Chapter 3: Rules for Finding Derivatives: Exercises 3.3, Problems 1-5" URL

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  Work through problems 1-5 for Exercises 3.3. When you are done, check your answers against Appendix A.
  

• Temple University: Gerardo Mendoza and Dan Reich's "Calculus on the Web" URL

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  Click the link to Book I, and click on the "Index" button. Click on button 44 (Product Rule). Complete problems 1-10. If at any time the problem set becomes too easy for you, feel free to move on.