Related Rates of Change What is meant by rates of change? A?rate?of?change?is a measure of how a quantity is changing with respect to another quantity Mathematically rates of change are?derivatives...
Chain Rule What is the chain rule?How do I know when to use the chain rule? How do I use the chain rule? Are there any standard results for using chain rule? Exam Tip You should aim to be able to s...
Differentiating Trig Functions How do I differentiate sin, cos and tan?These last three results can be derived using the?chain rule For calculus with trigonometric functions angles must be measured...
Modelling with Differentiation What can be modelled with differentiation? Recall that?differentiation?is about the?rate?of?change?of a function and provides a way of finding?minimum?and?maximum?val...
Increasing & Decreasing Functions What are increasing and decreasing functions? How do I find where functions are increasing, decreasing or stationary? To identify the?intervals?on which a func...
Introduction to Derivatives Before introducing a?derivative, an understanding of a?limit?is helpful What is a limit? What might I be asked about limits?What is a derivative? How are limits and deri...
Transition Matrices What is a transition matrix? A?transition matrix?T?shows the?transition probabilities?between the current state and the next state The?columns?represent the?current states The?r...
Markov Chains What is meant by a “state”? States refer to?mutually exclusive events?with the current event?able to change over time Examples of states include: Daily weather conditions The states c...
Type I & Type II Errors What are Type I & Type II errors? There are?four possible outcomes?of a hypothesis test: H0?is?false?and H0?is?rejected H0?is?true?and H0?is?not rejected The test is...
