connected rates of change
What connected rates of change means in Mathematics A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel, WJEC.
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Reference: WJEC
Link variables through time t via the chain rule.
Rates of change of quantities linked by an equation, with each changing quantity treated as a function of the same independent variable, usually time.
Topics that use connected rates of change
- Differentiation (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Differentiation (A2 Unit 3: Pure Mathematics B) (WJEC A-Level)
Related terms
- Chain rule
- differentiation from first principles
- Implicit differentiation
- Parametric differentiation
- Product rule
- Quotient rule
- second derivative
- algebraic simplification
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