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

 

  1. How is the section on curvature similar to the section on polynomial approximations?
  2. 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?
  3. What is the radius of curvature at an inflection point? Can you make sense of the phrase Œtangent circleš in light of the section?