Day 04 in Mat360

Today:

• Questions/Comments on old stuff?
  • Don't forget to use your calculator!
  • Email from a student re homework 1.1
  • It turns out that the maximum of the third derivative is at the endpoint anyway (which you could demonstrate by considering the sign of the derivative, for example). Nathan's bound on f''' (1.5*exp(.5)) was just a little larger than necessary (too "conservative"):

• Section 1.2:
  • section 1.2 summary

  • Problems from section 1.2:
    • #1b, 2b, 3c, 4d, 13b