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1) The document describes an activity to help understand local maxima, minima, and points of inflection on a curve. 2) A curved wire is fixed to a board and points A, B, C, D, and P on the curve are identified. 3) Points A and B are identified as local minima, points C and D as local maxima, and point P as an inflection point based on the behavior of the curve's tangent lines at these points.

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Activity - 7

1) The document describes an activity to help understand local maxima, minima, and points of inflection on a curve. 2) A curved wire is fixed to a board and points A, B, C, D, and P on the curve are identified. 3) Points A and B are identified as local minima, points C and D as local maxima, and point P as an inflection point based on the behavior of the curve's tangent lines at these points.

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Activity – 7

Objective: To understand the concepts of local maxima, local minima and point of

inflection.

Material required

A piece of plywood, wires, adhesive, white paper


Procedure:
1. Take a piece of plywood of a convenient size and paste a white paper on it.
2. Take two pieces of wires each of length 40 cm and fix them on the paper on
plywood in the form of x-axis and y-axis.
3. Take another wire of suitable length and bend it in the shape of curve. Fix
this curved wire on the white paper pasted on plywood, as shown in Fig.
4. Take five more wires each of length say 2 cm and fix them at the points A, C,
B, P and D as shown in figure.

Demonstration:

1. In the figure, wires at the points A, B, C and D represent tangents to the


curve and are parallel to the axis. The slopes of tangents at these points are
zero, i.e., the value of the first derivative at these points is zero. The tangent
at P intersects the curve.
2. At the points A and B, sign of the first derivative changes from negative to
positive. So, they are the points of local minima.
3. At the point C and D, sign of the first derivative changes from positive to
negative. So, they are the points of local maxima.
4. At the point P, sign of first derivative does not change. So, it is a point of
inflection.
Observation:
1. Sign of the slope of the tangent (first derivative) at a point on the curve to
the immediate left of A is negative.
2. Sign of the slope of the tangent (first derivative) at a point on the curve to
the immediate right of A is positive.
3. Sign of the first derivative at a point on the curve to immediate left of B is negative.
4. Sign of the first derivative at a point on the curve to immediate right of B is positive.
5. Sign of the first derivative at a point on the curve to immediate left of C is positive.
6. Sign of the first derivative at a point on the curve to immediate right of C is negative.
7. Sign of the first derivative at a point on the curve to immediate left of D is positive.
8. Sign of the first derivative at a point on the curve to immediate right of D is negative.
9. Sign of the first derivative at a point immediate left of P is negative and
immediate right of P is negative.
10. A and B are points of local maximum
11. C and D are points of local minimum
12. P is a point of inflexion.

Result:

1. This activity may help in explaining the concepts of points of local maxima,
local minima and inflection.
2. The concepts of maxima/minima are useful in problems of daily life such
as making of packages of maximum capacity at minimum cost

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