7 of the Maths AA glossary’s terms, each with the part of the syllabus where you first meet it.
The family of all solutions of a differential equation, written with an arbitrary constant such as ; a first-order equation has one arbitrary constant in its general solution.
The expression
A sequence in which each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous term by the same non-zero number, the common ratio .
The sum of the terms of a geometric sequence. For , the sum of the first terms is .
The greatest value a function takes on its whole domain. It may occur at a local maximum or at an endpoint of the domain, and some functions have none.
The least value a function takes on its whole domain. It may occur at a local minimum or at an endpoint of the domain, and some functions have none.
The steepness of a straight line: the change in divided by the change in between any two points on it, . For a curve, the gradient at a point is the gradient of the tangent there.