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- Review of Curves.
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- About 5O% of a typical calculus course deals with curve-sketching. If you
- don't know the properties of simple curves, you will have trouble with the
- more involved ones! The following are properties of the simple curves.
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- The equation of a straight line with slope m, and y-intercept b is
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- y = mx + b .
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- The equation of a straight line with slope m, passing through the
- point x = x , y = y , is
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- y - y = m(x - x ) .
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- The straight lines y = m x + b and y = m x + b intersect
- 1 1 2 2
- at right angles if
- m m = -1 .
- 1 2
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- The equation of a circle, radius r, center x = x , y = y , is
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- 2 2 2
- (x - x ) + (y - y ) = r .
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- The equation of a parabola with axis parallel to the y-axis is
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- y = ax + bx + c .
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- If a > O, the parabola opens upwards.
- If a < O, the parabola opens downwards.
- The vertex of the parabola is at x = -b/2a.
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- The equation of a parabola which crosses the x-axis at x = a, x = b, is
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- y = c(x - a)(x - b) .
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- The equation of a parabola with axis parallel to the x-axis is
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- x = ay + by + c .
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- If a > O, the parabola opens to the right.
- If a < O, the parabola opens to the left.
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- The equation of a cubic is
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- 3 2
- y = ax + bx + cx + d .
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- If a > O, the cubic starts in the 3rd quadrant and ends in the 1st.
- If a < O, the cubic starts in the 2nd quadrant and ends in the 4th.
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- The equation of a cubic which crosses the x-axis at x = a, x = b, x = c is
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- y = d(x - a)(x - b)(x - c) .
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- Two curves, y = f(x) and y = g(x), intersect at x = x , if
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- f(x ) = g(x ) .
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