HP 50g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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and the variable of differentiation. To fill these input locations, use the following
keystrokes:

~„t™~‚a*~„tQ2

™™+~‚b*~„t+~‚d

The resulting screen is the following:

To see the corresponding expression in the line editor, press ‚— and the
A

soft menu key, to show:

This indicates that the general expression for a derivative in the line editor or in
the stack is:

variable(function of variables)

Press ` to return to the Equation Writer. The resulting screen is not the
derivative we entered, however, but its symbolic value, namely,

To recover the derivative expression use ‚¯. To evaluate the derivative
again, you can use the D soft menu key. This shows again that

.

Second order derivatives are possible, for example:

which evaluates to:

β

α

δ

β

α

+

=

+

t

t

t

dt

d

2

)

(

2

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