Sketching Curves
(Lecture Notes for L-H-E Calculus 7e section 3.6)
Copyright © 2002–2008 by Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems
Copyright © 2002–2008 by Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems
Page 202 of your textbook summarizes most of your tools for sketching curves. What makes my summary any different? It’s in the order you’d actually check these things, not just the order they happen to be in the book; and it shows specific page numbers, not just section numbers.
Use these techniques to sketch a graph of a function:
You won’t use all of these techniques for every function, but see where your investigation takes you. The Guidelines box on page 202 is a super-fast summary of what to look for.
Examples: page 208 problems 16, 32, 68, 70
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