
Prove that is an increasing function of in .

Important Points to Remember in Chapter -1 - Application of Derivatives from NCERT MATHEMATICS PART I Textbook for Class XII Solutions
1. Rate of Change of Quantities:
(i) If then measures the rate of change of with respect to
(ii) represents the rate of change of with respect to at
(iii) If the displacement of a particle moving in a straight line at time is given by then
(a) Velocity at time Acceleration at time
(b) If a particle moving in a straight line comes to rest, then and
(c) If a particle moving in a straight line comes at rest instantaneously, then but
2. Increasing and Decreasing Functions:
(i) A function is said to be monotonic on if it is either strictly increasing or strictly decreasing on
(ii) A function is said to be a strictly increasing function on if for all
(iii) The necessary and sufficient condition for a differentiable function defined on to be strictly increasing on is that for all .
(iv) The necessary and sufficient condition for a differentiable function defined on to be strictly decreasing on is that for all
3. Tangents and Normals:
(i) Slope of Tangent and Normal:
(a) If then Slope of the tangent to at point
(b) Slope of the normal to at point
(ii) Equations of Tangent and Normal:
(a) If is a point on the curve then is the equation of tangent at
(b) is the equation of the normal at
(iii) Angle between the two curves:
(a) The angle between the tangents to two given curves at their point of intersection is defined as the angle of intersection of two curves.
(b) If and are two curves having equations and respectively such that they intersect at point The angle of intersection of these two curves is given by
(c) If the angle of intersection of two curves is at right angle, then the curves are said to intersect orthogonally. The condition for orthogonality of two curves and is
4. Approximations:
(i) Let be a function of and let be a small change in and be the corresponding change in Then, approximately.
(ii) Let be a given function of . If is an error in then the corresponding error in is given by
The error in and in are known as absolute errors
(iii) If is an error in then is called relative error in
(iv) If is an error in then is called the percentage error in .
5. Maxima and Minima:
(i) First derivative test for local maxima and minima:
Let be a function differentiable at , then
(a) is a point of local maximum of if and changes sign from positive to negative as passes through .
(b) is a point of local minimum of if and changes sign from negative to positive as passes through .
(c) If but does not change sign, that is, has the same sign in the complete neighbourhood of , then is neither a point of local maximum nor a point of local minimum.
(d) The points at which a function attains either the local maximum values or local minimum values are known as the extreme points or turning points and both local maximum and local minimum values are called the extreme values of a function.
(ii) The maximum and minimum values of a function:
Defined on a closed interval may be obtained by using the following steps.
Let be a function defined on
STEP I: Find
STEP II: Put and find values of x. Let be the values of The value of for which are called stationary values or critical values of and the corresponding values of are called stationary or turning values of function.
STEP III: Take the maximum and minimum values out of the values .
The maximum and minimum values obtained in step III are respectively the largest or absolute maximum and the smallest or absolute minimum values of the function.