Key takeaway: AP Calculus AB vocabulary covers 37 terms from the eight course units, including limit, continuity, chain rule, related rates, Riemann sum and Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
The AP Calculus AB exam rewards students who can name what they are doing: justifying a maximum with the First Derivative Test, citing the Intermediate Value Theorem, setting up a Riemann sum. This AP Calculus AB vocabulary page follows the eight units of the College Board course description, from limits to applications of integration.
Each term page shows the notation exactly as the exam writes it, a graph, and a free-response style problem solved step by step.
37 terms on this page, each with a definition, a figure and a worked example.
AP Calculus AB Vocabulary: the full list
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- Antiderivative AP Calculus AB Unit 6
- Area Between Curves AP Calculus AB Unit 8
- Average Value of a Function AP Calculus AB Unit 8
- Chain Rule AP Calculus AB Unit 3
- Concavity AP Calculus AB Unit 5
- Continuity AP Calculus AB Unit 1
- Critical Point AP Calculus AB Unit 5
- Definite Integral AP Calculus AB Unit 6
- Derivative AP Calculus AB Unit 2
- Derivative Rules AP Calculus AB Unit 2
- Differential Equation AP Calculus AB Unit 7
- Disk Method AP Calculus AB Unit 8
- Equation of a Tangent Line AP Calculus AB Unit 2
- Extreme Value Theorem AP Calculus AB Unit 5
- First Derivative Test AP Calculus AB Unit 5
- Fundamental Theorem of Calculus AP Calculus AB Unit 6
- Implicit Differentiation AP Calculus AB Unit 3
- Inflection Point AP Calculus AB Unit 5
- Integral AP Calculus AB Unit 6
- Intermediate Value Theorem AP Calculus AB Unit 1
- L'Hôpital's Rule AP Calculus AB Unit 4
- Limit AP Calculus AB Unit 1
- Limit at Infinity AP Calculus AB Unit 1
- Limit Definition of the Derivative AP Calculus AB Unit 2
- Mean Value Theorem AP Calculus AB Unit 5
- One-Sided Limit AP Calculus AB Unit 1
- Optimization (Calculus) AP Calculus AB Unit 5
- Power Rule AP Calculus AB Unit 2
- Product Rule AP Calculus AB Unit 2
- Quotient Rule AP Calculus AB Unit 2
- Related Rates AP Calculus AB Unit 4
- Riemann Sum AP Calculus AB Unit 6
- Second Derivative Test AP Calculus AB Unit 5
- Separation of Variables AP Calculus AB Unit 7
- Slope Field AP Calculus AB Unit 7
- Squeeze Theorem AP Calculus AB Unit 1
- U-Substitution AP Calculus AB Unit 6