Linearized Pitot system

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I am trying to create a linearized model of a compressible pitot tube system with altitude $h$ as the input and velocity as the output.

When I take the derivative and try and linearize around a point the derivative does not match (approximately) the delta between two points around it.

I have pitot tube velocity equation:

$T(h) =$ Temperature

$P(h) =$ static pressure

$P_o =$ stagnation pressure

------------------------------Constants-------------------------------

$P_s = 101$ KPa

$T_o = 290$ K

$\gamma = 1.4$

$M = 0.0289644$

----------------------- Governing Equations------------------------

$P = P_se^\frac{h*g*M}{RT}$

$ T = T_o-.0065*h$

$Mach = \sqrt{\frac{2}{(\gamma-1)}\biggr((\frac{P_o}{P(h)})^\frac{\gamma}{\gamma-1}-1\biggr)}$

$a = \sqrt{\gamma RT}$

$v = Mach*a$

My approach was to take the derivative (using chain rule) and add that to the nominal point

$dv = \frac{dv}{dT}\frac{dT}{dh} + \frac{dv}{dP}\frac{dP}{dh}$

so that:

$v = v_{nom} + dv$

I'm not sure about my method or my derivation using the chain rule.

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We have

$$ P -P_se^\frac{h*g*M}{RT} = 0\\ M - \sqrt{\frac{2}{(\gamma-1)}\biggr(\left(\frac{P_o}{P(h)}\right)^\frac{\gamma}{\gamma-1}-1\biggr)}= 0 $$

$$ f_1(P,M,h)=0\\ f_2(P,M,h)=0 $$

then

$$ \frac{df_1}{dh}=\frac{\partial f_1}{\partial P}P'+\frac{\partial f_1}{\partial M}M'+\frac{\partial f_1}{\partial h}=0\\ \frac{df_2}{dh}=\frac{\partial f_2}{\partial P}P'+\frac{\partial f_2}{\partial M}M'+\frac{\partial f_2}{\partial h}=0 $$

and solving for $P', M'$ we have

$$ P' = \frac{2 g (\gamma -1)^2 M(h) P(h) \left(T(h)-h T'(h)\right) \sqrt{\frac{\left(\frac{\text{P0}}{P(h)}\right)^{\frac{\gamma }{\gamma -1}}-1}{\gamma -1}}}{T(h) \left(\sqrt{2} g \gamma h \left(\frac{P_0}{P(h)}\right)^{\frac{\gamma }{\gamma -1}}+2 (\gamma -1)^2 R T(h) \sqrt{\frac{\left(\frac{P_0}{P(h)}\right)^{\frac{\gamma }{\gamma -1}}-1}{\gamma -1}}\right)}\\ M' = -\frac{\sqrt{2} g \gamma M(h) \left(T(h)-h T'(h)\right) \left(\frac{\text{P0}}{P(h)}\right)^{\frac{\gamma }{\gamma -1}}}{T(h) \left(\sqrt{2} g \gamma h \left(\frac{P_0}{P(h)}\right)^{\frac{\gamma }{\gamma -1}}+2 (\gamma -1)^2 R T(h) \sqrt{\frac{\left(\frac{P_0}{P(h)}\right)^{\frac{\gamma }{\gamma -1}}-1}{\gamma -1}}\right)} $$