A-Level Maths OCR B (MEI) (H640)

#9.18 Point of inflection

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Understand that a point of inflection on a curve is where the curve changes from concave upwards to concave downwards (or vice versa) and hence that the second derivative at a point of inflection is zero.
Be able to use differentiation to find stationary and non-stationary points of inflection.

Learners are expected to be able to find and classify points of inflection as stationary or non-stationary.
Distinguish between maxima, minima and stationary points of inflection.

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