Calculus 3 Lecture 13.8: Finding Extrema of Functions of 2 Variables (Max and Min)

Calculus 3 Lecture 13.8: Finding Extrema of Functions of 2 Variables (Max and Min): How to find Relative (Local) and Absolute Extrema of 2 Variable Functions. Optimization is also discussed.

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32:32 Second Derivative Test
46:50 Example 1
1:04:22 Tricky Systems
1:25:14 Example 2
1:51:37 Example 3
2:02:44 Important Note
2:05:54 Absolute Max and Min
2:10:00 Example 4
2:53:55 Example 5
3:07:57 Example 6
3:25:40 Example 7 (Optimization)

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