Monthly Archive: April 2011

Surface Area of Hemisphere 2

Surface Area of Hemisphere

You must know that a hemisphere is a half of a sphere. The formulae below can be used to find the curved surface area of a hemisphere (without the base circle area) and the...

Volume of a Cylinder 1

Volume of a Cylinder

The volume of a Cylinder can be expressed as in the following formula; …where r is that radius and h is the height You might have noticed that finding the volume for this type...

Volume of the Hemisphere 2

Volume of the Hemisphere

Volume of a Hemisphere Formula A hemisphere is half of a full sphere and the volume of a hemisphere is equal to two thirds multiplied by pi multiplied by radius to the power 3....

Stationary Points 0

Stationary Points

A stationary or turning points on a graph, is the point where the gradient is equal to zero. It is often useful to find and understand the stationary points on graphs especially in engineering....

Differentiating 0

Differentiating

In this topic I’ll be concentrating on differentiating polynomials. To differentiate a function means to find the gradient of the function, that is finding the difference between the y-axis dy and dividing it with...

Differentiation of Trigonometric Functions 1

Differentiation of Trigonometric Functions

When differentiating trigonometric functions, here are some of the rules that you should know; Derivative of sin x Derivative of cos x Derivative of tan x Derivative of cot x Derivative of sec x...

Quotient Rule 4

Quotient Rule

The quotient rule can be used to differentiate fractions or find derivative of a fraction function, In this topic I will be showing you how to find the derivative using the quotient rule. the...

Product Rule 0

Product Rule

The product rule is used to difrentiate two sets of functions, for example y = 3x(x2 + 4), ex(x5 + 5), and x8 (inx + 6) If you observe these functions you will see...