AP Calculus Honors Ms. Olifer Connecting f ’ and f ” with the graph of f AP Calculus Honors Ms. Olifer
What you’ll learn about First Derivative Test for Local Extrema Concavity Points of Inflection Second Derivative Test for Local Extrema Learning about Functions from Derivatives …and why Differential calculus is a powerful problem-solving tool precisely because of its usefulness for analyzing functions.
First Derivative Test for Local Extrema
First Derivative Test for Local Extrema
Example Using the First Derivative Test
Concavity
Concavity
Concavity Test
Example Determining Concavity
Point of Inflection
Example Finding Points of Inflection
Second Derivative Test for Local Extrema
Example Using the Second Derivative Test
Learning about Functions from Derivatives