Calculus

Calculus

Calculus is the mathmatical study of change. Calculus has two branches, differential calculus and integral calculus.

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normal line

Mathematics; Calculus

The normal line to a curve at a point is the line perpendicular to the tangent line at that point.

point of inflection

Mathematics; Calculus

A point is called a point of inflection of a function if the function changes from concave upward to concave downward, or vice versa, at that point.

point-slope form

Mathematics; Calculus

The point-slope form for the equation of a line is y – y 1 =; m(x – x 1 ), where m stands for the slope of the line and ( x 1 , y 1 ) is a point on the line.

second derivative test for local extrema

A method used to determine whether a critical point of a function is a local maximum or local minimum. If f'(x ) =; 0 and the second derivative is positive at this point, then the point is a local ...

slope of the tangent line

Mathematics; Calculus

One way of interpreting the derivative of a function is to understand it as the slope of a line tangent to the function.

slope-intercept form

Mathematics; Calculus

The slope-intercept form for the equation of a line is y =; mx + b , where m stands for the slope of the line and the line has its y -intercept (the place where the line crosses the y -axis) ...