Determining Intervals of Increase and Decrease
The increasing/decreasing test
Procedure for finding intervals
Example 1: cubic polynomial
Example 2: trig function
Example 3: function with $f'$ DNE
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Vocabulary
Unit 5 topics
Unit 5 overview15.1 Using the Mean Value Theorem25.2 Extreme Value Theorem and Critical Points35.3 Determining Intervals of Increasing and Decreasing45.4 Using the First Derivative Test55.5 Using the Candidates Test for Absolute Extrema65.6 Determining Concavity and Points of Inflection75.7 Using the Second Derivative Test85.8 Sketching Curves of Functions and Their Derivatives95.9 Connecting f, f', and f''105.10 Solving Optimization Problems