Learning objectives

• Explore the chain rule for compositions of functions with various numbers of variables
• Treat the chain rule as substitution into differentials

Before class

• Read Hughes-Hallett sections 14.6.
• Ponder Hughes-Hallett problems: 14.6: 3, 9, 16, 19.

In class

• Work problems
• Using differentials to linearize equations

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