The last image is what I’ve tried, but I’m struggling to obtain the other zeros/roots of both the first and second derivatives.
Can someone help?
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The last image is what I’ve tried, but I’m struggling to obtain the other zeros/roots of both the first and second derivatives.
Can someone help?
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i feel like this has been sent before
Yes. I posted it before but am still struggling
if you just want to find roots , why don't you just see where the graph intersects x axis?
Well because I need the roots to even get the graph in the first place.
I need to obtain the graph by sketching without a graphing calculator
hmm
Yeah, unfortunately, the exact positions of extrema here can't be determined, as the respective transcendental equations don't have solutions that are expressible in elementary functions.
Okay. So there’s no way to solve it using Calculus methods?
No, what I meant is that there's no "easy" analytical expression for extrema. You can still find them numerically, though.
There's certainly not "easy" solutions, but I found more equations with the same roots as tan(x) = -x/2