Mathematics Problem Of the Week

Spring 2008

POW #10

 

Differentiation of Power Towers

 

 

Derive formulas for the derivatives (with respect to x) of each of the functions below.

 

         and        

 

 

Include work to justify your answers (i.e. results from a computer algebra system such as Maple are not sufficient.)

 

Due Friday, April 11th at Noon.

Solutions should be submitted to Dr. R. Lock's mailbox in the Math/CS/Stat office or sent via e-mail to rlock@stlawu.edu.