Rate of Change

Going on Tangents

In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

Hugo Rossi

1D Kinematics and Other Applications

Derivatives in Context

Straight-line Motion

Other Fields

Related Rates

Word Problems

Other Applications

Linearization and Approximation

Local Linearity

Using Data

L'Hopital's Rule

Indeterminate Forms

Using L'Hopital's

The Mean Value Theorem

Applying the MVT

Extrema

Highs and Lows

Sign Graphs

Local and Global Tests

Graphical Analysis

Concavity

Connecting Functions and Derivatives

Optimization

More Word Problems

Implicit Relations

Other Resources

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