Rates of Change
Average rate of change, secant lines, instantaneous rate of change, and tangent lines
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📈 Rates of Change
Study average and instantaneous rates of change, secant and tangent lines, and real-world applications.
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A stone is dropped into a still pond, creating a circular ripple. The radius of the ripple is increasing at a rate of cm/s. How fast is the area of the circle increasing when the radius is cm?
2Write the relationship between variables
3Differentiate both sides with respect to time
4Substitute known values
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Average rate of change, secant lines, instantaneous rate of change, and tangent lines
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