5.3 Periodic Motion

Checkpoint 5

  1. Print this page, which has copies of Figures 7 and 8 below.

  2. On Figure 7, label the axes and determine the points where the graph intersects either the horizontal or the vertical axis.

  3. What function do you think is the derivative of the cosine?

Figure 7   The cosine function
Figure 8   Approximate derivative of cos t

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