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What is the gradient function?

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The formula for the gradient of the tangent at any point (x)

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What are some notations of the gradient function?

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How is first principal’s derived?

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Splitting it up into two points, with a distance of h (later made to be 0) and then finding tangent gradient

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What is the first principles formula for the gradient of the tangent line?

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What does this mean?

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The limiting value (output ) as h tends towards 0

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What does the derivative tell you ?

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How quickly the gradient function is increasing/ decreasing at that point

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What is the quick way to differentiate when the base is x and the power is a constant ?

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What is the derivative of a constant?

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0

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Differentiate the equation

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how would you manipulate given expressions into a sum of x ^n terms?

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  1. turn roots into powers (fractions)
  2. split up into fractions
  3. Expand out brackets
  4. if x is in the denominator, write it as a negative power in the numerator
  5. Beware of numbers in denominators (don’t take co efficents of x up into numerator, leave down as a coefficent fraction
  6. if there are multiple brackets, expand the brackets
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How would you find the equation of a tangent to the curve at a point?

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  1. Differentiate the equation to get the gradient function
  2. Put x value into this gradient function =m
  3. Using m , y ,x firm an equation
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What is a normal to the curve ?

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The perpendicular line of the tangent at that point

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What is the relationship between the tangent of a curve and the normal?

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What is an increasing function ?
A function where f ‘ (x) > 0 NOT when f ‘ (x) = 0 as
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Describe the intervals for which x is increasing or decreasing
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What is a decreasing function?
When f ‘ (x) < 0
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How would you show that a function is increasing?
By getting some value of x squared —> as this will always be positive despite the value of x And an added value This can be done by normal, or by completing the square
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what is the stationary point/ turning points?
where f ' (x) =0
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what are the three types of turning points?
* local minima * local maxima * saddle point (point of inflection) | not all points of infliction are turning points
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what does "**local**" minima/ maxima mean?
it is the largest/ smallest value within the vicinity. "global" manima/ maxima mean highest/ smallest value in the entire function | cubics can never be global as they tend to infinity
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what is a point of inflection?
* increasing before the point is the point, increasing after * decreasing before, decreasing after | the direction of lines/ gradient is the same before and after
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how would you determine from the gradient if there is a * local maximum point * local minimum point * point of inflection
1. gradient [-] ----> [+] 2. gradient [+]---->[-] 3. gradient [+]---->[+], [-]----> [-]
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what does the second derivative tell you?
how quickly the gradient is increasing or decreasing
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what does an increasing gradient look like?
* going from negative to positive * tangent becomes less steeper | postive second derivertive
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what does a decreasing gradient look like?
* tangent becomes steeper | negative second derivative
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what does it mean when 1. f " (a) >0 2. f " (a) <0 3. f "(a) =0
1. local minimum 2. local maximum 3. USELESSS instead substitute previous and pre values of x
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How would you sketch this gradient of this graph (y=x) on y =f’(x)
X axis becomes gradient, all TPS turn into roots
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Sketch the gradient of this graph
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How many degrees smaller will the gradient function be than the original function ?
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Sketch the gradient function of this graph
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In general if the original function f(x) has any horizontal asymptotes how will this be shown in the ketch of the gradient function
As an asymptote to the x axis
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Sketch gradient function of the following graphs
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Sketch the gradient function of the graph that has vertical asymptotes
Vertical asymptotes stay the same in gradient graph aswell
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Sketch the gradient function of the graph that has vertical asymptotes
Vertical asymptotes stay the same in gradient graph aswell
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What are optimisation problems?
Trying to maximise/ minimise a value of a variable we can control
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Make sure to discard invalid solutions
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