Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course

    • How to use this course

  • 2

    Rates of Change

    • Example 1: Distance/Speed/Acc

    • Example 2: Finding Max height of a particle projected vertically

  • 3

    Maximum / Minimum problems

    • Recap: Finding turning points (Local max, local min)

    • Example 1: Maximum volume of a box from a square sheet of material

    • Example 2: Maximise the volume of a cylinder with a given surface area

    • Example 3: Finding the dimensions to maximise a water tank with a given surface area

    • Example 4: Minimise the surface area with a set volume

    • Example 5: Minimise surface area of an open top box

    • Example 6: Maximise the sector or a circle , with a perimeter of 100m

    • Example 7: Finding maximum volume of a cone, if the slant height is 12cm

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    Related Rates of Change

    • Related Rates of Change

    • Example 1 The Area of a square is changing as the lenght of its side is changing every second.

    • Example 2 The volume of a sphere is increasing find the rate the radius is increasing

    • Example 3: Find the rate of change of a sphere when the radius is changing

    • Example 4: Find the rate of change of the radius if the volume of the sphere is changing

    • Example 5: Air is escaping from a sphere find the rate of change of the radius

    • Example 6: Find the rate of change of the volume of a cylinder

    • Example 7 Rate of change of the radius of a cylinder as the volume changes

    • Example 8 Area of a circle is changing as the radius changes

    • Example 9: The Radius of a circle is changing find the rate of change of the area

    • Example 10: Cube find dv/dt

    • Example 11: Finding the rate of change of the side of a cube

    • Example 12: 2016 Q7(a) The volume of a sphere is changing, find the rate of change of the radius

    • Example 13: 2016 Q7(b) Find the rate of change of the surface area of the sphere

    • Example 14 : 2015 Oil Slick question ( Volume of a cylinder is changing find the rate of change of the radius)

    • Example 14 b: 2015 Q8: Area of oil slick is changing

    • Example 15: 2014 (sample) Snowball question part(a)

    • Example 16: 2014 (Sample) Rates of change Snowball part b

    • Example 17: 2013 Q8 Rain drop question. Find the rate of change of the radius

    • Example 18: 2012 Q7 Cylinder find dv/dt as water flows from a tank

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    Theory based questions: Increasing/decreasing functions, points of inflection etc

    • 2018 P1 Q8 Increasing functions/Points of inflection

    • Show a function has no turning points

    • 2019 P1 Trigonometric function, max/min showing function is increasing or decreasing

    • Finding an the coefficients of a function given the max point and P.O.I

    • Graphs of Derivatives, increasing and decreasing functions