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I don't understand differentiation. How does it work?

The first thing to know is that it is absolutely fine to be struggling with differentiation. It is one of the harder topics of A Level maths that you won't have seen before. I know it certainly took me a ...

Answered by Tutor296844 D. • Maths tutor

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An unknown gas from a reaction is contained in a 2 litre beaker, at standard atmospheric pressure and a Temperature of 25 Celsius. Calculate the number of moles of the gas.

PV=nRT n=PV/RT=(1.01*10⁵0.002)/(8.31298)=0.0816 moles

Answered by James M. • Chemistry tutor

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y(x) = x^2(1-x)e^-2x , find y'(x) in the form of g(x)e^-2x where g(x) is a cubic function to be found

For this question, I would first expand the brackets in the given y(x) to form , x^2e^-2x -x^3e^-2x . With this form, I would then differeniate using the chain rule to then obtain the expression that can ...

Answered by Arjun B. • Maths tutor

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Maltose is hydrolysed by the enzyme maltase. Explain why maltase catalyses only this reaction (3 marks)

The question is three marks, so should have three points.1) Active site of the enzyme has a specific shape/ tertiary structure/ complementary to maltose2) Only maltose can bind...

Answered by Amy W. • Biology tutor

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When dealing with trigonometric functions such as sin, cos or tan, how do you solve the trigonometric equation when the argument of the function(s) is nx, where n is a real number not equal to 1.

In order to solve Trigonometric equations like these, you must consider how the argument of the function changes the period of the graph. There are many methods of solving equations like this, but persona...

Answered by Joshua M. • Maths tutor

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