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Find the second derivative

Now that you have the derivative of your objective function, you can calculate the second order derivative. You'll do so symbolically using sympy.

The values for dc_dq and q_opt, and the objective function c with the quantity variable q from the previous exercise are available to you.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Optimization in Python

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Find the second derivative
d2c_dq2 = ____

# Substitute the optimum into the second derivative
sol = ____(____)
print(f"The 2nd derivative at q_opt is: {sol}")
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