Section 4.3 Maxima and Minima

Text for Section 4.3 Maxima and Minima

Learning Objectives

• Define absolute extrema.
• Define local extrema.
• Explain how to find the critical points of a function over a closed interval.
• Describe how to use critical points to locate absolute extrema over a closed interval.

• Determining where a function is increasing and decreasing using the first deriviative
• Increasing / Decreasing / Relative Extrema from Analyzing a Graph
• Finding critical numbers
• Absolute extrema on an interval
• Absolute extrema involving transcendental functions