微积分教学资料——chapter14.ppt

So far we have dealt with the calculus of functions of a single variable. But, in the real world, physical quantities often dependon two or more variables, so in this chapter we turn our attention to functions of several variables and extend the basic ideas of differential calculus to such functions. 14.1 Functions of Several Variables In this section we study functions of two or more variables from four points of view: Verbally (by a description in words) Numerically (by a table of values) Algebraically (by an explicit formula) Visually (by a graph or level curves) F