At what domain points does the function appear to be
a. differentiable?
b. continuous but not differentiable?
c. neither continuous nor differentiable?
Answer:
Besides telling how fast an object is moving, its velocity tells the direction of motion. When the object is moving forward (s increasing), the velocity is positive; when the body is moving backward (s decreasing), the velocity is negative.
The rate at which a body’s velocity changes is the body’s acceleration. The acceleration measures how quickly the body picks up or loses speed. A sudden change in acceleration is called a jerk. When a ride in a car or a bus is jerky, it is not that the accelerations involved are necessarily large but that the changes in acceleration are abrupt.
If the equations x = f (t), y = g (t) define y as a twice-differentiable function of x, then at any point where dx/dt 0, .