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Lecture (10 Minutes)
- Introduction to total differentials and measuring how changes to one or more independent variables effect a function of those variables.
- Example provided to demonstrate the structure of a total differential. $dU=\left(\frac{\partial U}{\partial x}\right)_y dx + \left(\frac{\partial U}{\partial y}\right)_x dy$
- Review of both scalar and vector forms of infinitesimals relating the example just presented to $d \vec{r}$
- Description of ratios of differences while clarifying that a derivative is NOT a ratio of two differentials since it matters what is held fixed.
