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What is the second derivative used for?

First of all, "second derivative", d2y/dx2, is what you get when you differentiate the first derivative (dy/dx).

The second derivative can be used as an ea...

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Outline the advantages and disadvantages of Injection Moulding as a manufacturing technique.

Advantages:

-> Repeatable - the same design can be achieved every time with very good accuracy.

-> Economic - hundreds of copies of the design can be produced b...

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Calculate the total resistance of a circuit with a 300 ohm resistor and 250 ohm resistor in parallel with one another.

Remember that to calculate resistances in parallel, the formula we use is:

1/R= 1/R+ 1/R2 etc.

So that gives us:

1/Rt...

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The average age of a group of 6 people is 21. One more person joins the group and the average is now 25. How old is the new member of the group?

To work out averages we add up all of the ages and divide by the number of people in the group.

So that means in the first group, before the new person joined in, all the ages added up an...

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Answered by Alok K. Maths tutor
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Differentiate f(x) = 3x^2+5x+3

Remember the rules for differentiation?

We take each term which looks like axn where a and n are just numbers and we turn it into: (an)xn-1

So for this...

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Answered by Alok K. Maths tutor
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