- So, let's say we've been given all
this information about the function g
and it's derivative evaluated at x equals two.
We know g of two is equal to three.
G prime of two is equal to one.
The second derivative of g evaluated two is negative one.
The third derivative of g evaluated at two is two.
Given that, what we're being tasked with is
we want to use the second degree Taylor polynomial
centered at x equals two to approximate g prime of one.
Not g of one, g prime of one and so I encourage you
to pause this video and try to think about it on your own.
I'm assuming you've had a go at it.
Let's just remind ourselves what a second
degree Taylor polynomial centered at x equals two
would look like for a general function f of x.
F of x would approximately be equal to,
it would be f of two plus f prime of two
times x minus two plus f prime prime of two
times x minus two squared, all of that over two factorial.
That would get us to a second degree place
because it's x minus two squared.
This is gonna give us a second degree polynomial.
This is the general case.
If we want to find the approximation for f centered
at x equals but we're gonna do it for g prime.
Let me write this down.
Alright, so I'll do it in blue.
So, we have g prime of x is what we're going
to try and approximate and then we're
going to evaluate it at x equals 1.
G prime of x is going to be approximately equal
to, well same thing, it's going to be the function
that I'm going to try to approximate
evaluated at two so g prime of two.
Notice, so I'm approximate f of x,
it's that function evaluated at two.
If I'm approximating g prime of x,
it's that function evaluated at two.
Then, plus the first derivative of this thing
which is the second derivative of g.
G prime prime of two times x minus two
and then plus the second derivative of the function
that I'm trying to approximate but the second derivative
of g prime is going to be the third derivative of g.
It's going to be g prime prime prime of two times x minus
two squared, all of that over two factorial.
Now, they tell us what these things are.
Let me use some new colors here.
They tell us g of two is equal to three.
This right here, oh, actually no,
that's not what we're gonna wanna use.
They tell us we're using g of two.
They're telling us g prime of two is equal to one.
G prime of two, so this right over here is equal to one.
G prime prime of two is equal to negative one.
This is negative one right over here
and then finally the third derivative
of g evaluated at two is two.
Two over two factorial, two factorials is
two times one or it's just two.
So that and that cancel out.
What are we left with for our approximation
our second degree approximation of g
prime of x centered at x equals two?
We are left with g prime of x is approximately
equal to one minus x minus two.
One minus x minus two, I guess I could write
that as plus two minus x so plus two minus x.
The negative of x minus two is two minus x.
Plus x minus two squared and obviously I
could simplify this even more.
This is three minus x plus x minus
two squared and now I can evaluate it.
If I wanna approximate g prime of one,
I could say g prime of one is going to be approximately
equal to, wherever I see the x is here
I put in a one there, so it's going
to be three minus one plus one minus two squared.
Well, this is going to be two and then one
minus two is negative one but then
if I square it I get a positive one.
So this whole thing is one.
Two plus one is equal to three.
Once again, this is an approximation for g prime of one.
What did we do here?
We found the Taylor series.
The second degree Taylor series approximation
for g prime of x centered around x equals two
and then we evaluated that approximation
at x equals one to approximate g prime of one.
Anyway, hopefully, you found that fun.