Dan DeBra) once said, roughly, âall instruments are first and foremost thermometers, but sometimes they measure something else as wellâ. He was talking about temperature compensating strain gauges, but he was also in charge of an ultra-precision machining laboratory â the one that built the gyros for Gravity Probe B.
In mathematics, a quotient is the result of division. For example, when dividing 6 by 3, the quotient is 2, while 6 is called the dividend, and 3 the divisor. The quotient further is expressed as the number of times the divisor divides into the dividend, e.g. 3 divides 2 times into 6. A quotient can also mean just the integer part of the result of dividing two integers. For example, the quotient of 13 and 5 would be 2 while the remainder would be 3.
Definition of Quotient Rule. The quotient rule is one of several rules used to find the derivative of a function. Specifically, the quotient rule finds the derivative of the quotient of two functions, provided that the derivatives of both those functions exist. If a function f (x) can be written as, and, then v. The quotient rule can be extended to find the second derivative as well, by replacing the original functions g (x) and h (x) with the numerator and denominator of the first derivative, respectively. The quotient rule is derived from the application of the product rule and chain rule.