Monotonicity
Monotonicity: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Points of Inflection of a Function in an Interval, Monotonicity of a Function, Proving Inequalities Using Curvature of a Function & Radius of Curvature at a Point on a Curve etc.
Important Questions on Monotonicity
Find the intervals in which the following function is
Strictly increasing,
Strictly decreasing.

Find the intervals in which the function given by is strictly decreasing.

Find the intervals in which the function is strictly decreasing. Also find the points on which the tangents are parallel to the -axis.

The intervals in which the function would increase is:

Let and . If is decreasing in the interval and increasing in the interval , then is equal to

The set of all for which the equation has exactly one real root, is

Let be a differentiable function such that with and .
Consider the following two statements:
(A)
(B)
Then,

The number of points, where the curve crosses the -axis, is

The function is an increasing function in

If , then find possible values of and such that is monotonic.


If , is increasing in the interval , then is

Which of the following graph of is monotonically increasing or decreasing at the point ?

For constant number , consider the function on such that for . If the range of for any real number is where , then the minimum value of is

Interval of monotonicity of is


Let , then which of the following is true?

and be two function defined by and , find the range of if

What is the interval in which the function is increasing ?

The smallest natural value of for which the function , is increasing
