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  • - [Voiceover] What you see here in blue

  • this is the graph of

  • Y is equal to F of X.

  • Where F of X is equal to

  • X to the third

  • minus six X squared

  • plus X minus five.

  • What I want to do in this video

  • is think about what is the equation

  • of the tangent line

  • when X is equal to one?

  • So we can visualize that.

  • So, this is X equaling one right over here.

  • This is the value of the function.

  • When X is equal to one.

  • Right over there.

  • And then the tangent line

  • looks something like

  • will look something like.

  • I know I can do a better job than that.

  • It's going to look something like that.

  • And what we want to do is find the equation

  • the equation of that line.

  • And if you are inspired I encourage you to be,

  • pause the video and try to work it out.

  • Well the way that we can do this is

  • if we find the derivative at X equals one

  • the derivative is the slope of the tangent line.

  • And so we'll know the slope of the tangent line.

  • And we know that it contains that point

  • and then we can use that to find the equation

  • of the tangent line.

  • So let's actually just, let's just.

  • So we want the equation of the tangent line

  • when X is equal to one.

  • So let's just first of all evaluate F of one.

  • So F of one

  • is equal to one to the third power

  • which is one.

  • Minus six times ones squared,

  • so it's just minus six.

  • And then

  • plus one

  • plus one

  • minus five.

  • So, this is equal to what?

  • Two minus 11?

  • Which is equal to

  • negative nine.

  • And that looks about right.

  • That looks like about negative nine right over there.

  • The scales are different on the Y and the X axis.

  • So that is F of one.

  • It is negative nine.

  • Did I do that right?

  • This is negative five.

  • Yep, negative nine.

  • And now let's evaluate what the derivative is

  • at one.

  • So,

  • what is F prime of X?

  • F prime of X.

  • Well here it's just a polynomial.

  • You take the derivative of X to the third

  • while we apply the power rule.

  • We bring the three out front.

  • So you get three X

  • to the.

  • And then we go one less than three

  • to get the second power.

  • Then you have

  • minus six X squared.

  • So you bring the two times the six

  • to get 12.

  • So minus 12 X

  • to the

  • well two minus one is one power

  • so that's the same thing as 12 X.

  • And then plus the derivative of X

  • is just one.

  • That's just going to be one.

  • And if you view this as X to the first power

  • we're just bringing the one out front

  • and decrementing the one.

  • So it's one times X to the zero power

  • which is just one.

  • And then the derivative of a constant here

  • is just going to be zero.

  • So this is our derivative of F

  • and if we want to evaluate it at one

  • F prime of one

  • is going to be three times one squared

  • which is just three

  • minus 12 times one

  • which is just minus 12.

  • And then we have plus one.

  • So this is

  • three minus 12 is negative nine

  • plus one is equal to negative eight.

  • So we know the slope right over here

  • is the slope of negative eight.

  • We know a point on that line

  • it contains the point one negative nine

  • so we can use that information to find the

  • equation of the line.

  • The line, just to remind ourselves,

  • has the four.

  • Y is equal to M X plus B.

  • Where M is the slope.

  • So we know that Y is going to be

  • equal to negative eight X

  • plus B.

  • And now we can substitute

  • the X and Y value that we know

  • sits on that line to solve for B.

  • So we know that Y is equal to negative nine.

  • Let me just write this here.

  • Y is equal to negative nine

  • when X is equal to

  • when X is equal to one.

  • And so we get

  • we get

  • negative nine

  • is equal to negative eight times one.

  • So negative eight

  • plus B.

  • Well, let's see.

  • We could add

  • we could eight to both sides

  • and we get negative one

  • is equal to B.

  • So we're done.

  • The equation of the line

  • the equation of this line

  • that we have in magenta right over there

  • that is

  • that is

  • Y is equal to the slope

  • is negative eight X.

  • And then the Y-intercept

  • minus one.

- [Voiceover] What you see here in blue

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