Two kinds of rate of change
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Two kinds of rate of change
Q: A car travels 110 miles in 2 hours. What’s its average rate of change (speed)?
A: 110/2 = 55 mi/hr. That is, if we drive 55 miles in an hour, then in 2 hours, we will have driven 110 miles.
Q: If you are driving and suddenly look at your odometer, which says 60 mi/hr, what kind of rate of change is that?
A: Instantaneous R.O.C. That is, the rate at that particular time instance.
Average R.O.C. is over a period of timeInstantaneous R.O.C. is at a given point of time.
Average rate of change
Height (feet)
A rocket is shot straight up, given bythe function f(x) = -16x^2+128x, where x = time, f(x) = height at time x.
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Q: What is the average speed between P (at x = 4) and Q (at x = 7)?
1. Find the slope of the secant line betweenP and Q.
2. Find the coordinates of P and Q. For P, f(4) = -16(4)^2+128(4) = 256, P(4,256). For Q, f(7) = -16(7)^2+128(7) = 112, so Q(7,112).3. Slope = (112-256)/(7-4) = -48 ft/sec
Instantaneous rate of change
Height (feet)
Q: What is the average R.O.C as x changes from 4 to 6?
Q: What is the average R.O.C as x changes from 4 to 5?
Q: What is the average R.O.C as x changes from 4 to 4.001?
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Time (seconds)0 81 64 5
What do you think the instantaneous R.O.C would be at x = 4?
How fast is the rocket moving at preciselyX = 4 seconds?
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DefinitionAverage Rate of Change of a quantity over a period of time is the amount of change divided by the time required for the change.
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Average speed is 35.7 mph measured over 7 hours
Important IdeaThe average rate of change (speed) over a time period is the slope of the secant line connecting the beginning and end of the time period. y
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Try ThisDescribe in words how you could find the speed at exactly the 5th hour.
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SolutionThe instantaneous velocity at exactly the 5th hour is the slope of the line tangent to the velocity function at t=5.
Important IdeaThe instantaneous velocity at a point, or any other rate of change, is the slope of the tangent line at the point
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The derivative can be used to determine the rate of change of one variable with respect to another.
Ex: Population growth, production rates, rate of water flow, velocity and acceleration.
Ex: Free fall Position function. A function, s, that gives position (relative to the origin) of an object as a function of time.
A ball dropped from a 160 foot building:
Find average velocity over each time interval.
Therefore, the average velocity is
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Negative velocity indicates object is falling
Find instantaneous velocity when t=1.1 sec
Generally if, s = s(t) is the position for an object moving in a straight line, then the velocity of the object at time t is:
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