Talk:Calculus/Differentiation/Applications of Derivatives/Exercises

Overlapping exercises
These exercises partially overlap with Calculus/Differentiation:Exercises. The exercise situation throughout differentiation is messy, some of the sections implement their own exercise headings in the main text. --Mrwojo (talk) 03:12, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Size
If this is to have enough problems, it's going to be too big of a page. Tiled (talk) 21:23, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I guess I am unsure what you mean by "too big". We could change the format of the page so shorter calculation "Compute the derivative" type sections are two columns, as with many "dead tree" books.  This will mean less scrolling.  Of course, if you mean size in terms of number of bytes, this may not help matters.  What is your main worry about a large page? Thenub314 (talk) 21:44, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Excercise Answers
Only the first 4 answers are provided for the 'solve by definition' section. Is this intentional?

Removed exercise from "Absolute Extrema" set
I removed the following problem due to the necessity of finding analytic roots of a 6th degree polynomial to get an exact answer:

I thought about having a previous exercise use Newton's method to find an approximate solution to the polynomial in question, but an approximate $$x$$-value won't give an exact extremum. Without the use of a computer this exercise is not practical. --Greenbreen (discuss • contribs) 10:06, 18 May 2011 (UTC)