1. What is a critical number of a function f ? What is the
connection between critical numbers and relative extreme
values?
2. What are inflection points? How do you find them?
3. What does the sign of the derivative, f ', tell us about the
function? What does the sign of the 2nd derivative, f ", tell us
about the function?
4. What does it mean to say that a function is concave upward?
Concave downward?
5. What does...
(a) Find the critical numbers of the function
f(x) = x8(x −
1)7.
(b) What does the Second Derivative Test tell you about the
behavior of f at these critical numbers?
(c) What does the First Derivative Test tell you? (Enter your
answers from smallest to largest x value.)
1.
Find the critical numbers of the function f (x) = x^3− 12x in the
interval [0, 3]. Then find the absolute maximum and the absolute
minimum of f(x) on the interval [0,3].
2. Using only the limit definition of derivative, find the
derivative of f(x) = x^2− 6x (do not use the formulas of
derivatives).
1) Find the critical numbers of the function.
f(θ) = 16 cos θ + 8 sin^2 θ
θ=?
2) Find the absolute maximum and absolute minimum values of f on the given interval.
f(x) = x/(x^2 − x + 9), [0, 9]
3) f(x) = 3x3 + 4x2 + 7x + 5, a = 5
(f −1)'(a) = ?
Explain what an extreme value is. Include in your answer (1) the
effect extreme values have on the median, if any, and (2) the
effect extreme values have on the mean, if any.
Consider a function that describes the values of Cp
as a function of temperature, relative to the
water vapor (gas), in the temperature range between 100
oC and 700 oC:
Cp(H2 O, g) (J
K-1mol-1) = 30.54 + 0.01029T (T / K)
(a) Calculate the amount of heat required to raise the temperature
of two moles of water vapor at constant pressure to 100
oC to 500 oC.
b) Calculate the entropy variation associated with the heating
process referred to...
Consider the function ?(?)=(?^(4/5))*(?−3). This function has
two critical numbers ?<?
1) Then ?= ? and ? = ?.
2) For each of the following intervals, tell whether ?(?) is
increasing or decreasing.
(−∞,?]: ?
[?,?]: ?
[?,∞): ?
3) The critical number A is ? and the critical number B is ? (a
relative maximum / a relative minimum / neither max nor min )
There are two numbers ?<? where either ?″(?)=0 or f″(x) is
undefined.
4) Then C...