In calculus, the second derivative of a function f is the derivative of its derivative, informally the rate of change of the rate of change. A familiar example is the second derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to time, which is its instantaneous acceleration, the rate at which its velocity is itself changing. On the graph of a function, the sign of the second derivative corresponds to its concavity: a positive second derivative marks a graph that curves upward, while a negative one marks a graph that curves the other way. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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In calculus, the second derivative, or the second-order derivative, of a function f is the derivative of the derivative of f.
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