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Find an equation of the tangent line to the curve at the given point.
$ y = \ln (x^2 - 3x + 1), (3, 0) $
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Doruk Isik
Calculus 1 / AB
Chapter 3
Differentiation Rules
Section 6
Derivatives of Logarithmic Functions
Derivatives
Differentiation
Campbell University
University of Nottingham
Boston College
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In mathematics, a derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes. Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much one quantity is changing in response to changes in some other quantity; for example, the derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to time is the object's velocity. The concept of a derivative developed as a way to measure the steepness of a curve; the concept was ultimately generalized and now "derivative" is often used to refer to the relationship between two variables, independent and dependent, and to various related notions, such as the differential.
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In mathematics, a differentiation rule is a rule for computing the derivative of a function in one variable. Many differentiation rules can be expressed as a product rule.
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and this problem. We're finding the equation for the tangent line to a curve. Specifically, the function of that curve is log rhythmic, and we're also given a point at which we have to find the tangent line. So the function were given is why equals the natural log of X squared minus three x plus one. So the first thing that we need to do before we can find the tangent line is find the derivative. So we need Y prime. How are we going to do that? We have to use training role. So why prime would be equal to one over X squared minus three x plus one times two X minus three. Now, if you're confused about that, basically what you do with chain rule because we know the derivative of the natural log is one over X, so we would have one over X. But in this case, it's this entire input and then we'll multiply by the derivative of that input. And then we can simplify Why? Prime to be two X minus three over X squared minus three X plus one. So we have the derivatives, but we need the slope of the tangent mind at the 0.30 so we can find why, prime of three, why crime of three would be equal to sticks minus 3/9 minus nine plus one so it would simplify to three. And now we're very close to finding the equation for a tangent line. We can use this point slope form why, minus why not equals m times X minus x dot So we can just plug in the point that were given why my zero equals three times X minus three. So you can essentially write the tangent line in this form or you can simplify it in point in slope form and we would have Why equals to reacts minus nine. So either way, they both mean the same thing. These air both the equation for the tangent line to our curve at that point. So I hope that this problem helped you understand a little bit more about how we confined the equation for a tangent line, using our knowledge of differentiation of logarithmic functions and then plugging in the point in our, um, coordinate plain to find the overall tangent line
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