MATH 2B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antiderivative, Mean Value Theorem

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Anti-differentiation is exactly what it sounds like: the opposite of differentiation. That is, given a function f, can we nd a function f whose derivative is f. An anti-derivative of a function f is a function f such that f"(x) = f(x) for all x. = c is an anti-derivative of (x) f. 2x+(x 3)tan x (x) is an anti-derivative of os x. = x2 + 3 is an anti-derivative of sin x. We can easily check the veracity of these statements by differentiating f(x). Differentiation is often described as easy in the sense that nice functions can usually be differentiated via familiar rules. Anti-differentiation is hard: very few functions have anti-derivatives that can easily be computed. Example : it is easy to find the derivative of anti-derivative of f(x)? f (x) The only method that really exists for explicitly computing anti-derivatives is guess and differentiate!

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