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.
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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