Observation 4 - Quiz + Starting Partial Derivatives

Reminders

More Practice on Contour Diagrams

Types of Surfaces

  1. Graph of z=f(x,y)
  2. Quadric Surfaces (12.6)
  3. Level Surfaces: g(x,y,z)=c.
    1. They really struggled with this one!!!

They should know that if a variable is not used (ie: y in z=x2), it's a cylinder, even if it's not our typical cylinder.

They did an example of ln(x2+y2z2) where they consider the level curve passing through (1,1,1).

Actually Starting Partial Derivatives

Showed them most of the definitions of Partial Derivatives. Did the example:

$f(x,y) = (x+y)^2

  1. Compute fx,fy
  2. Make contour diagram
  3. Use contour diagram to guess fx(p0) and fy(p0) if p0=(1,1/2).

Which they did (Brussel did).