Brian McLogan
How to determine the points of differentiability
👉 Learn how to determine the differentiability of a function. A function is said to be differentiable if the derivative exists at each point in its domain. To check the differentiability of a function, we first check that the function is...
Brian McLogan
Learn how to eliminate the parameter with trig functions
Learn how to eliminate the parameter in a parametric equation. A parametric equation is a set of equations that express a set of quantities as explicit functions of a number of independent variables, known as parameters. Eliminating the...
Brian McLogan
Finding the inverse of a function
👉 Learn how to find the inverse of a linear function. A linear function is a function whose highest exponent in the variable(s) is 1. The inverse of a function is a function that reverses the "effect" of the original function. One...
Brian McLogan
How to write a quadratic of it's factors using quadratic formula
👉 Learn how to solve quadratic equations using the quadratic formula. A quadratic equation is an equation whose highest power on its variable(s) is 2. The quadratic formula is a formula which can be used to find the roots of (solve) a...
Brian McLogan
Write the equation of the tangent line with exponential
👉 Learn how to find and write the equation of the tangent line of a curve at a given point. The tangent of a curve at a point is a line that touches the circumference of the curve at that point. To find the equation of the tangent line...
Brian McLogan
How to apply a transformation vector to translate a figure
👉 Learn how to apply transformations of a figure and on a plane. We will do this by sliding the figure based on the transformation vector or directions of translations. When performing a translation we are sliding a given figure up,...
Brian McLogan
Solving a quadratic by applying the quadratic formula
👉 Learn how to solve quadratic equations using the quadratic formula. A quadratic equation is an equation whose highest power on its variable(s) is 2. The quadratic formula is a formula which can be used to find the roots of (solve) a...
Brian McLogan
How to translate a parallelogram by translating
👉 Learn how to apply transformations of a figure and on a plane. We will do this by sliding the figure based on the transformation vector or directions of translations. When performing a translation we are sliding a given figure up,...
Brian McLogan
Find the value makes a piecewise function continuous with system of equations
👉 Learn how to find the value that makes a function continuos. A function is said to be continous if two conditions are met. They are: the limit of the function exist and that the value of the function at the point of continuity is...
Brian McLogan
Find the extrema using the second derivative test
👉 Learn how to find the extrema of a function using the second derivative test. The second derivative test states that if a function has a critical point for which f'(x) = 0, and the second derivative is positive, then the function has a...
Brian McLogan
Find the values where the function has horizontal tangents
👉 Learn how to find the point of the horizontal tangent of a curve. A tangent to a curve is a line that touches a point in the outline of the curve. When given a curve described by the function y = f(x). The value of x for which the...
Brian McLogan
Learning to shift a triangle by a translation vector
👉 Learn how to apply transformations of a figure and on a plane. We will do this by sliding the figure based on the transformation vector or directions of translations. When performing a translation we are sliding a given figure up,...
Brian McLogan
Solve using the quadratic formula with complex solutions
👉 Learn how to solve quadratic equations using the quadratic formula. A quadratic equation is an equation whose highest power on its variable(s) is 2. The quadratic formula is a formula which can be used to find the roots of (solve) a...
Brian McLogan
Write the tangent line through a point of natural log equation
👉 Learn how to find and write the equation of the tangent line of a curve at a given point. The tangent of a curve at a point is a line that touches the circumference of the curve at that point. To find the equation of the tangent line...
Brian McLogan
Eliminating your parameter for parametric equations
Learn how to eliminate the parameter in a parametric equation. A parametric equation is a set of equations that express a set of quantities as explicit functions of a number of independent variables, known as parameters. Eliminating the...
Brian McLogan
Reflecting a triangle over the y=x line
👉 Learn how to reflect points and a figure over a line of symmetry. Sometimes the line of symmetry will be a random line or it can be represented by the x or y-axis. Either way when reflecting a point and or figure over the line of...
Brian McLogan
How to translate a pentagon by sliding using a vector
👉 Learn how to apply transformations of a figure and on a plane. We will do this by sliding the figure based on the transformation vector or directions of translations. When performing a translation we are sliding a given figure up,...
Brian McLogan
Determining the scale factor of two quadrilaterals
👉 Learn about dilations. Dilation is the transformation of a shape by a scale factor to produce an image that is similar to the original shape but is different in size from the original shape. A dilation that creates a larger image is...
Brian McLogan
Solving a quadratic equation using inverse operations
👉Learn how to solve quadratic equations using the square root method. It is important to understand that not all quadratics have to be solved using factoring or quadratic formula. When we only have one variable but it is squared we can...
Brian McLogan
Using triangles to evaluate for compositions of inverse functions
👉 Learn how to evaluate an expression with the composition of a function and a function inverse. Just like every other mathematical operation, when given a composition of a trigonometric function and an inverse trigonometric function,...
Brian McLogan
Evaluating the difference of two angles for the cosine function
👉 Learn how to evaluate the secant of the sum or difference of two angles using the sum/difference formulas. To do this, we first use the Pythagoras theorem to obtain all the sides of the right triangle in the unit circle. Recall that...
Brian McLogan
How to translate a rectangle by shifting or sliding the figure
👉 Learn how to apply transformations of a figure and on a plane. We will do this by sliding the figure based on the transformation vector or directions of translations. When performing a translation we are sliding a given figure up,...
Brian McLogan
Solving a quadratic by applying the quadratic formula
👉 Learn how to solve quadratic equations using the quadratic formula. A quadratic equation is an equation whose highest power on its variable(s) is 2. The quadratic formula is a formula which can be used to find the roots of (solve) a...
Brian McLogan
How do you find the formula for the nth term of an arithmetic sequence
👉 Learn how to find the nth term of an arithmetic sequence. A sequence is a list of numbers/values exhibiting a defined pattern. A number/value in a sequence is called a term of the sequence. An arithmetic sequence is a sequence in which...