What to memorize for AB Calc

grenny
Tue, 03 May 2011 01:10:44 +0000

From what I’ve noticed from all those practice tests, you should definitely know the derivatives of the trig functions, even the inverse ones, as well as the natural logs and e. The mean value theorem, related rates, and average rate of change also pop up frequently. It’d be best to fully understand velocity/acceleration/position, and where a function’s increasing/decreasing and concave up/down.
For the free response part, it’s like every year, there’ll be one question about the region between two functions. So for that, know how to do the washer and shell methods. Oh, and make sure you know how to find the volumes of cross-sections.