The quiz this Wednesday will cover material from last Monday September 19. Specifically look for word problems that involve:
- Average rate of change
- This might be average velocity or average growth rate in an application
- Instantaneous rate of change (ie: the derivative at a point)
- This might be the velocity or growth rate in an application
- Computing the equation of the tangent line
- Rate of change for the...
- growth rate
- velocity
When I ask you about the rate of change of the growth rate we're look at the the second derivative at a point.
The same is true for velocity. In fact, the rate of change of velocity has the name acceleration.
To study I suggest you review the problems from our lecture notes last Monday (September 19) and the problems from the WebAssign assignment Derivatives II.
You can also find examples/practice problems Section 1.8 in the textbook. (I really like the homework problem number 12---we did this in class together. Recall that the graph in Figure 8 depicts the position of the vehicle.)
Good luck!