Section 3.7 Rates of Change in the Natural and Social Sciences

Course Objectives

Students will be able to:
- apply the principles of problem solving to solve applications involving instant rates of change.
- explain how position, velocity, and acceleration functions are related to each other.
- apply the principles of problem solving to solve applications involving position, velocity, and acceleration functions.
- apply the principles of problem solving to solve business applications involving cost, profit, revenue, marginal cost, marginal profit, and marginal revenue functions.

Learning Resources

TO DO for this section:

Read/study key definitions and examples from the textbook and/or the provided Powerpoint PDF files.
Watch the Pre-Recorded Video Lecture videos.
Study the Lecture Notes created from the pre-recorded video lectures.
Complete assignments that include this section. They are located in the Assignments section. SAVE and organize your written work.
Log on to Online Class and Office Hours sessions to ask questions.
For extra practice, check out the exercise sets from the textbook.