Applications of derivatives

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Welcome to the chapter on Application of Derivatives

Brief Introduction about the Chapter

This chapter deals with the applications of the concept of differentiation and derivatives. Using this concept, we are able to solve a wide variety of problems, many of them of significant practical use. For example, as we’ll learn in this chapter, using the concept of derivatives we can write down the equations of tangents and normals to arbitrary curves at arbitrary points, check whether a function is increasing or decreasing in arbitrary intervals, find the maximum and minimum values of a given function, and so on.

Topics Covered

Section - 1: Tangents and Normals
Section - 2: Monotonicity
Section - 3: Maxima and Minima
Section - 4: Mean Value Theorems and Other Applications
Section - 5: Graphs - II
Section - 6: Miscellaneous
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