Writing Assignment for Friday, December 5th
Please give short answers to each of the following questions
by emailing me through the link for your section: 8 Section 10 Section
- How is
the section on curvature similar to the section on polynomial
approximations?
- If a
curve has a large second derivative, what can you say about its radius of
curvature? What would the curve
look like in that case?
- What
is the radius of curvature at an inflection point? Can you make sense of
the phrase tangent circleš in light of the section?