Differentiation

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How do you find dy/dx?
Differentiate the equation
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What does dy/dx show?
An equation to find the gradient of a tangent to a curve
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How do we find the gradient of a tangent?
Find dy/dx, sub in values for x
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What does dy/dx = 0 tell us?
It is a stationary point
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What does d^2y/dx^2 tell us?
If it is a maximum or a minimum point
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Card 2

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What does dy/dx show?

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An equation to find the gradient of a tangent to a curve

Card 3

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How do we find the gradient of a tangent?

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Card 4

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What does dy/dx = 0 tell us?

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What does d^2y/dx^2 tell us?

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