Monotonicity
Monotonicity: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Points of Inflection of a Function in an Interval, Monotonicity of a Function, Proving Inequalities Using Curvature of a Function & Radius of Curvature at a Point on a Curve etc.
Important Questions on Monotonicity
Find the intervals in which the following function is
Strictly increasing,
Strictly decreasing.

Find the intervals in which the function given by is strictly decreasing.

Find the intervals in which the function is strictly decreasing. Also find the points on which the tangents are parallel to the -axis.

The intervals in which the function would increase is:

Let be a positive random variable. Compare with for all values of
.

Find the curvature of at the point .

Find the curvature of at the point .

Find the curvature of at the point .

Find the curvature of at the point .

Find the curvature of at the point .

is a monotonic function. Find whether the function is increasing or decreasing.

is a monotonically increasing function in . Find whether the function have an extrema at . Find maximum value in given domain.

is a monotonically increasing function in . Find whether the function have an extrema at . Find maximum value in given domain.

Let be a differentiable function such that and for all
Which of the following is true?

For a real number , let denote the real number such that . The function , where and are positive real numbers, is increasing on

If has an extremum at the point , then the values of and are

Find number of point of inflection for the following functions in .

is an increasing function, if


Let . Then for to be a function with negative slope on , possible values of are given by
