Gradient and applications
Gradient vector, directional derivative, direction and rate of steepest ascent and tangent plane
The Gradient and applications unit belongs to the Section 10 section of Math Mental and has 14 lessons: gradient vector, directional derivative, direction and rate of steepest ascent and tangent plane.
Lessons in this unit
- Gradient at a point
- Gradient with an exponential
- Gradient in three variables
- Directional derivative with a unit vector
- Normalizing the direction
- Directional derivative with a root
- Practice: gradient and directional derivative
- Maximum rate
- Minimum rate
- Direction of steepest ascent
- Tangent plane to the graph
- Tangent plane to a level surface
- Review: gradient
- Unit test
This unit in numbers
11 lessons, 2 practices, and 1 test, with 120 questions in total.
It starts with “Gradient at a point” and ends with “Tangent plane to a level surface”.
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