One cubic foot. The box should be a cube one foot on each side.
There are three critical points -- at
(-1, 0)
,
(0, 0)
, and
(1, 0)
.
The critical point at
(0, 0)
looks like a saddle. The other two critical points are minimums.
Copyright c 1997 by
Frank Wattenberg
, Department of Mathematics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717