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Relative (local) maximum and minimums.

Where do relative mins and maxs occur on a graph?

The calculus of relative maximums and minimums.

Absolute maximum and minimums

Where do absolute mins and maxs occur on a graph?

Critical number (point)

Find the absolute extrema of f(x) = 2x 3x2/3 on [-1, 3].

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Rolles Theorem
If f(x) is continuous on __________ and ______________________ on (a, b), and if f(a) = ________ ( = 0),
then there _____________ at least one number c on __________________ such that __________ = _____.

Rolles Theorem says that if the conditions are met then f(x) has an __________________
minimum/______________ on the interval __________.

If the conditions are not met then??????

Rolles theorem is an ___________________ theorem, a theorem that does not tell us ____________ to find
the c, just that one exists.

Find the c, (x-value) guaranteed by Rolles Theorem for f(x) = x4 2x2 on [-2, 2].
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Mean Value Theorem (MVT)
If f(x) is ____________________ on [a, b] and differentiable on _____________, then there _____________
at least one number c on __________________ such that f ' (c) = _____.
A picture is worth a _________________ words:

The MVT says that if the conditions are met then on a closed ___________________, the average change in
_____________________, of a _____________ function, is guaranteed to be met, ___ ____________ once
on the ______________________ interval.

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Find the c guaranteed by the MVT for y on [1, 4].
x

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Increasing/decreasing
An interval is increasing if

An interval is decreasing if

It is ___________ the definition of increasing, the above is, but a __________________ fact about an
increasing interval is that on an increasing interval _____ is _______________________.
For decreasing intervals, _______ is _______________________.

Speaking of facts, at the moment (point) that a ___________ function changes from
_____________________ to decreasing that function would be at a place where the y-value is the
__________________ when compared to the other y-values in the hood. We might call this a
_______________ _____________________. This is also true about functions that are changing from
decreasing to increasing, except here we would have a ________________ minimum.

The f (x) test

Find all, if any, intervals of increasing or decreasing and find all, if any relative maximum and minimum
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points for f (x) x 3 x 2 .
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The first derivative test is a test to determine if a _____________________ point is a ________________

maximum, minimum or ___________________.
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Use the first derivative test to find all, if any, relative max and mins for f(x) = (x2 -4)2/3.

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Not the f (x) test

f (2) = 5 f (2) = 5
f (2) = 3 f (2) = - 3
f (2) = 5 f (2) = 3

If a derivative is a rate of change, then f (x) = 0 says that f (x) is ___________ ________________.
What is happening graphically when f (x) is positive? or negative?

The f tells us if the graph is ____________________ up or down.

At some point a graph will change concavity.
The point at which this change occurs is known as an ____________________ point.
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The definition of an inflection point is the point where a graph

A fact about an inflection point is that at an inflection point ______________ = 0. BUT, we will see that if
f (x) = 0 there is _____________ always an _______________ point.

Find all, if any, intervals where f(x) is concave up and down and find all, if any, points of inflection for
f(x) = -x3 +3x2 -2

NOTE: What we just did is _____________ called the second derivative test. It isnt called ______________
but we can call it
There is by the way a __________________ derivative test. This just _______________ it.

Using the f '(x) test find all, if any, relative mins and maxs for y = x3.

If the sign of the f ' does _________ change around a critical number then that ______________
number/point is an _____________________ point.
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Graphically there is a difference between an inflection point found with this scenario and one found solely
using the f '' analysis.

An _____________________ point whose f ' = 0 would look like a _______________, and hence we may
choose to call it a _______________________ inflection point.

An _____________________ point whose f ' 0 would look like a _______________ inflection point, and
hence we may choose to call it a _______________________ inflection point.

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The f (x) test ?

f (2) = 5
f (2) = 0
f (2) = 5
sup at 2?
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The __________________ ____________________ ___________ tests to see if a ________________ point

is relative min or max.

f(2) = 3
f (2) = 0
f(1) = 5
f(5) = 7
sup at 2?

Use the second derivative test to determine if the critical points of f(x) = 3x2 2x + 1 are rel. mins/maxs.

The __________________ ___________ tests to see if a ________________ point is relative min or max.
If you are not testing to see if a ______________ ________________ is a _________________ min, max or
_______________, then you are not doing the f(x), f (x) or ____________ tests.

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The full package curve sketch
Find all, if any, intervals where f(x) is increasing/decreasing.
Find all, if any, relative maximum or minimums.
Find all, if any, intervals where f(x) is concave up/down.
Find all, if any, inflection points.
Use all this to sketch the graph of f(x).
f (x) 3x 5 5x 3

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Full package
y = sin2(x) [0, 2]
2x
y
x2 1