FLASHCARDS

V’(t)

Hint: NOT

Change in velocity with respect to time; a.k.a.

acceleration

S’(t)

Change in position with respect to time; a.k.a. velocity

Related Rates

Related rates occur when between RELATED variables, at least one is changing (aka a rate). The related rate is the rate of change between the variables.

They’re all RELATED!!!!Barack

Obama

Local Maximum

A critical x-value is approached from a positive slope and followed by a negative slope

Local Minimum

A critical x-value is approached from a negative slope and followed by a positive slope

FENCE (particularly a garden fence), BALLOON (volume)

Optimization

An optimist

BALLOON (rising), ROCKET, LADDER

Related Rates

Cone

•DEPENDENT variables: means it is necessary to set up a proportion

depends