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Lesson 1: Internal- AP Calculus exam samples
- Calc graveyard
- Island of especially painful problems (to be rehabilitated)
- Homeless existing Calc items
- Samples for AP videos
- Applying existence theorems
- Limits from graphs warmup
- Using tables to approximate limits
- Limits from tables challenge problems
- Differentiate composite functions (all function types)
- First derivative test: find the error
- Inflection points with second derivative: find the error
- 𝘶-substitution: find the error
- Differentiate powers of functions
- Slope and arc length of parametric curves
- Modeling with differential equations
- Parametric equations and their graphs
- Using multiple properties of definite integrals
- Curve sketching
- Differentiating products
- Product rule to find derivative of product of three functions
- Proof: limit of (sin x)/x at x=0
- Proof: d/dx(ln x) = 1/x
- Proof: d/dx(eˣ) = eˣ
- Proofs of derivatives of ln(x) and eˣ
- Limits from graphs: function undefined
- Limits from graphs: limit isn't equal to the function's value
- Limits from graphs: limit is different on each side
- Limits from graphs: asymptote
- Limits from graphs: non-integer limit
- Squeeze theorem example
- Approximating limits
- Conditions for MVT: graph
- Conditions for MVT: graph
- Conditions for MVT: table
- Existence theorems intro
- Worked examples: Definite integral properties 2
- Definite integral properties (no graph): function combination
- Definite integral properties (no graph): breaking interval
- Sketches of curves of functions
- Analyzing straight-line motion graphically
- Vector-valued functions integrations
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Existence theorems intro
Overview of the Intermediate Value Theorem, the Extreme Value Theorem and the Mean Value Theorem.
Want to join the conversation?
- At4:23doesn't continuity imply differentiability and vice versa?(4 votes)
- No. Differentiability is a stronger condition than continuity. In particular, differentiability implies continuity but not the other way around. The classic example is the origin when considering the absolute value function 𝑓(𝑥) = |𝑥|. Clearly 𝑓 is continuous is at the origin but it is not differentiable at the origin. Comment if you have questions!(9 votes)
- At2:10Sal explains the extreme value theorem. He says that there has to be a minimum and maximum value between "a" and "b", but what if f(a) = f(b)? Couldn't we draw a graph that is just a horizontal line and there is no minimum or maximum?(5 votes)
- In this case you can consider the minimum to be equivalent to the maximum which implies that the function is constant over the interval, instead of considering both the minimum and maximum to be nonexistent.(3 votes)
- So intermediate theorem would not apply to circles, since circles are not functions, strictly speaking?(3 votes)
- A full circle itself is not a function, but it can be split into two semicircles. Each semicircle is a function that would certainly follow intermediate value theorem!(3 votes)
- Is the IVT and EVT Rolle's Theorem?(2 votes)
- Hi Karen,
Intermediate Value Thm guarantees a solution to the equation f(c) = N where c is in (a, b) given N inbetween f(a) and f(b). f(x) must be continuous and N must be inbtween f(a) and f(b) for this solution to exist.
Extreme Value thm guarantees a maximum function value and a minimum function value for a continuous function on a closed interval [a, b]. These extrema could either be at the endpoints or at the critical points of f(x).
Rolle's Theorem guarantees a value of c in (a, b) for which f'(c) = 0. But it is only guaranteed to exist if
(1) f(x) is continuous on [a, b]
(2) f(x) is differentiable on (a, b)
(3) f(a) = f(b)
These are three different "existence" theorems(3 votes)
- At2:30, how about a horizontal straight line, it is a function that does not take on a min and max value!(2 votes)
- Sure it does, they just happen to be the same value.(2 votes)
- Do the corresponding y-values of a and b matter in the extreme value theorem and mean value theorem? He seems to start every function from ( a , f(a) ) and ends it (b , f(b) ) but could you start and end on any y-value of a or b ?(1 vote)
- These theorems are defined for a continuous function f(x) from [a, b] to the set of real numbers. So the corresponding y-values for the inputs of 'a' and 'b' to f(x) are f(a) and f(b). If you want to take y-values different from f(a) and f(b), we will no longer be talking about the same function f(x).(1 vote)
- What is these existence theorems used for? Do they have any purpose?(1 vote)
- They are primarily use to describe functions, particularly complex ones. The usefulness of these theorems could be comparable to the Maclaurin or Taylor Series if you are familiar with those.(1 vote)
- How does the Extreme Value Theorem work for a horizontal line? There is no maximum or minimum; it is all the same number.(1 vote)
- All that the EVT says is that, on the closed interval [a,b], and for a continuous function f(x), there exists a maximum value and a minimum value. In the degenerate case you've supplied, the maximum happens to occur at f(a) = f(b), and the minimum also occurs at f(a) = f(b). So there are an infinite number of maximum (and minimum) points between a and b; the EVT just guarantees us at least one of each.(1 vote)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] What we're going
to talk about in this video are three theorems that are
sometimes collectively known as existence theorems. So the first that we're
going to talk about is the intermediate value theorem. And the common thread here, all of the existence theorems, say, hey, we're looking for
something over an interval. There exists an x value, between a and b, where something interesting happens. In the intermediate value theorem, we assume that if we're continuous
over the closed interval from a to b, and in fact all
of these existence theorems assume that our function is continuous over the closed interval from a to b, then we take on every value
between f of a, and f of b, or another way to think about it is, pick a value from f,
between f of a and f of b, including f of a, or f of b. Let's call that value l. The intermediate value
theorem tells us that there, if we make the assumption
that f is continuous over this interval, then there must be a value between a and b that takes on the value l. And I challenge you, try to
draw a continuous function that goes from a, comma f of a, to b, comma f of b, that does not go through l. If you're continuous
you've got to go through l. The only way that you can't go through, the only you could avoid going through l is if you were discontinuous, if you had a discontinuity right there, then you could avoid going through l, but we're assuming that we're
continuous over the interval. And so here, it's pretty intuitive, that if you're continuous, there exists a c between a and b, including it could be a or b, that takes on any of those values, and in this case, this particular value that sits between f of a, and f of b. So that's the first existence theorem. The second is what's often known as the extreme value theorem. And this one is similarly
intuitive, I think. Once again, it assumes
that f is continuous over a comma, over this closed interval. But here, we say look, if it is continuous over
that closed interval, then there exists,
that's why they're called existence theorems, there exists values between a and b, and it could happen at a or b, where the function takes on a maximum and there's a value between a and b, where the function
takes on a minimum value over that interval. So once again, try to draw a function that does not take on a
minimum and maximum value over that interval. If I just draw a straight line here, well then the maximum
value happens when x is b, the minimum value happens when x is a. If I do something like that, the maximum value occurs, once again, it is
occurring in this interval, it's occurring right here at c, and then the minimum
value is occurring at a. If I draw something like, let me draw it like this, if I draw something like this, then the minimum value is
occurring at this x value, and then the maximum value
is occurring at that x value. This is just saying that they exist, they exist over that interval, and it might happen at
a, it might happen at b. And once again, the only way
I can construct something where these maximum or minimum values, these extreme values don't exist, is if I make it discontinuous. So, for example, what if I had a graph that looked like right at where we thought
we were gonna have a maximum value, we're discontinuous? Well now, you don't have
a clear maximum value. Similarly I could do something like this, where now we do not have
a clear minimum value, and so there does not exist an x where the function
takes on a minimum value in that interval. But once again, we are assuming
that we are continuous, and so we will find these extreme values, and we have other videos where
we go into much more depth on it. Last, but not least, to complete the trifecta, we have the mean value theorem, and this one is also intuitive. It starts going into differentiatability in the derivative, and it adds an extra constraint for us. Above and beyond saying
that we're continuous over the closed interval, we also assume that we're differentiable over the open interval. If you're differentiable over an interval, it does mean that you're continuous, but if you're continuous, it does not necessarily mean
that you're differentiable. And all this tells us is, if I have a continuous and
differentiable function over this interval, differentiable over the open interval, continuous over the closed interval, so let me draw that, so let me draw something like this, and if I were to compute
the average rate of change from a comma f of a to b comma f of b, so the average rate of change
I will do in this pink color, so that would be the slope
of this line right over here, that would be the average rate of change, the slope of that line. The mean value theorem tells us that there exists a point c where the derivative of
our function at that point, the slope of the tangent
line, at that point, is the same as the average rate of change. And we could eyeball that here, it looks like for this curve, there's actually several points where the derivative looks the same as the average rate of change. Maybe right over here the
slope of the tangent line looks like it has the exact same slope as the average rate of change. So that could be our c, it exists! We feel good it exists. But there could more than one value. Right over there, it looks like the slope is the same as the average rate of change, that could also be our c right over there. So how could we construct something where that isn't true? Well, if we don't assume differentiability over the interval, we can actually find a continuous function where it isn't true, where you can find a
point whose derivative is the same as the average rate of change. So, for example, here's my counter case. Maybe something like an
absolute value function, where the average rate, where the average rate of change, let me draw it a little bit better. So this was some type of
an absolute value function, where this is linear up to this point, and then linear up to this point. We're not going to be
differentiable over here, so not, the derivative
isn't defined at this point right over here. Well now, you can't, at no
point over this interval is the slope of the tangent line the same as the slope conn--, or is the same as the
average rate of change. You might try to make an argument that oh, maybe right over there, but we're not differentiable over there. There isn't a well-defined tangent line, or there isn't a well-defined tangent line and a well-defined derivative or slope of a tangent line. So in other videos we will go into depth. But it's nice to look
at them all together. See what they are all talking about. They're all talking about
the existence of an x value in the interval where
something interesting happens, where we take on a value
between f of a and f of b, where we take on extreme values, or where the derivative at that point is the same as the average rate of change over the interval.