Differentiation from first principles resources
Teach Yourself (4)

After reading this text, and/or viewing the video tutorial on this topic,
you should be able to
differentiate the functions sin(x)and cos(x) from first principles.

After reading this text, and/or viewing
the video tutorial on this topic, you should be able to
understand the process involved in differentiating from first principles and
differentiate some simple functions from first principles.

This unit looks at some basic differentiation from first principles, and in particular how to differentiate powers of x.

In this unit the natural logarithm function and the exponential function are differentiated from first principles.