First Derivative vs Second Derivative in relation to minima and maxima
I am struggling with understanding the difference between them and I need to write about them intuitively. The way my teacher explained it, the sign of the first derivative is used to determine if there is a minimum, maximum, or neither. For example, if the derivative is increasing to the left of x and decreasing to the right of x, than a maximum is present. If the derivative is decreasing to the left of x and is increasing to the right of x, there is a minimum. I know that the second derivative is the derivative if the first derivative and if it is positive on a certain interval, it is concave up. Is that not telling me the same thing as the first derivative?