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Grade 12Differential Calculus

Whats the graphical meaning of the second derivative?

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17 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of ashish kumar
17 Years ago

 

Dear Sumit,

Graphical meaning of the second derivative are : -

  1. to recognize graphically when a function is concave upwards or concave downwards by looking at the graph of its second derivative;
  2. to recognize graphically the inflection points of a function;

Thank you.