After completing this section, students should be able to do the following.
- Identify the relationships between the function and its first and second derivatives.
- Sketch a graph of the second derivative, given the original function.
- Sketch a graph of the original function, given the graph of its first and second derivatives.
- Sketch a graph of a function satisfying certain constraints on its higher-order derivatives.
- State the relationship between concavity and the second derivative.
- State the Second Derivative Test.
- Apply the Second Derivative Test.
- Define inflection points.
- Find inflection points.