Calculus? How to access points of maximum or minimum differential along a curve

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Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on July 26, 2010 at 4:03pm

Here's a thought:
Intersect the curve with its curvature graph curve.
You'll find gh and vb definitions of the latter here

Permalink Reply by Jacek Jaskólski on July 26, 2010 at 5:25pm

I read your post again:
1. the points of zero curvature aren't the same as peaks and throughs.
2. to find those you'll need to define a coordinate system (xy) first, then look for points, at which the curve's tangent vector is parallel to x.

Permalink Reply by Steve Lewis on July 26, 2010 at 6:38pm

Ah, very clever idea. I'll try that out.