Thread: Practical Differentiation help

Hi

I have a practical differentiation question I just cant seem to solve,

Resistance to motion, F, of a moving vehicle is given by F = 5/X +100X, Determine the minimum value of resistance?

I think its the two x that are confusing me, the examples did in class all involved area and volume and were easy to grasp. any help would be appreciated.

regards

Originally Posted by webb84

Hi

I have a practical differentiation question I just cant seem to solve,

Resistance to motion, F, of a moving vehicle is given by F = 5/X +100X, Determine the minimum value of resistance?

I think its the two x that are confusing me, the examples did in class all involved area and volume and were easy to grasp. any help would be appreciated.

regards

Solution with Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Hence, the min of is .

Originally Posted by webb84

Hi

I have a practical differentiation question I just cant seem to solve,

Resistance to motion, F, of a moving vehicle is given by F = 5/X +100X, Determine the minimum value of resistance?

I think its the two x that are confusing me, the examples did in class all involved area and volume and were easy to grasp. any help would be appreciated.

regards

Start by solving dF/dx = 0. Have you tried doing this? Where do you get stuck?