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Slope Fields

Author: Jennifer Letourneau

Slope Field Video: Part 1

This first video discusses the description and purpose of a slope field and walks through the steps necessary to sketch on from a differential equation.

Slope Field Video: Part 2

This video shows the completed sketch of the slope field from Video 1, discusses how to identify patterns in the slopes drawn in the slope field and also demonstrates how to sketch a particular solution to the differential equation with a given initial condition.

Additional problems are suggested from a worksheet reproduced with permission from apcentral.collegeboard.com

Source: apcentral.collegeboard.com (Permission from Nancy Stephenson

Extra Practice

Page 3 from student handout in class with additional pages from reference on apcentral.collegeboard.com

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Source: apcentral.collegeboard.com (Nancy Stephenson)