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This document contains a tutorial sheet with 27 questions on calculus topics like limits, continuity, differentiation, and Taylor series. The questions cover determining if limits exist, proving continuity using epsilon-delta definitions, discussing uniform continuity, finding derivatives, analyzing Taylor polynomials, and determining radius of convergence for power series. Answers to selected questions are provided involving limits, continuity properties, derivatives of trig functions, and analyzing radius of convergence.

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This document contains a tutorial sheet with 27 questions on calculus topics like limits, continuity, differentiation, and Taylor series. The questions cover determining if limits exist, proving continuity using epsilon-delta definitions, discussing uniform continuity, finding derivatives, analyzing Taylor polynomials, and determining radius of convergence for power series. Answers to selected questions are provided involving limits, continuity properties, derivatives of trig functions, and analyzing radius of convergence.

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Department of Mathematics

MTL 100: Calculus


Tutorial Sheet 2: Differential Calculus in One Variable

1. Do lim x sin
x0

1
and lim x sin x exist? If yes, find the limit; if not justify.
x
x

2. Prove that the function

f (x) =

1 if x Q;
0 if x
/Q

is discontinuous at every point.


3. Using  definition, prove that the function f (x) = |x| is continuous.
4. Using  definition, prove that the function
(

f (x) =

x2 cos x1
0

if x 6= 0;
if x = 0

is continuous at x = 0.
5. Discuss the continuity of the function

f (x) =

1/x e1/x

e1/x + e1/x

if x 6= 0;
if x = 0

at x = 0.
6. If f and g are continuous at a, prove that both functions max(f, g) and min(f, g) are continuous at a.
7. Let f (x) be a periodic function. Show that if lim f (x) exists, then f (x) is a constant function.
x
Deduce from this that lim sin x does not exist.
x

8. Let f satisfy the equation f (x + y) = f (x) + f (y) for each x, y R. Show that if f is
continuous at one point, then it is continuous at every point in R.
9. If f be a function such that |f (x)| |x| for all x R, then show that |f | is continuous at 0.


10. Find a continuous function f : (0, 1) R and a Cauchy sequence {xn } such that f (xn ) is
not Cauchy.
11. Let f : R R satisfy |f (x) f (y)| |x y| for all x, y R and some constant (0, 1).
(a) Show that f is continuous on R.

(b) Let x0 R be arbitrarily chosen. Define a sequence {xn }n1 by xn = f xn1 for n 1.
Show that the sequence {xn } is a Cauchy sequence.
(c) Show that x? = lim xn is the only fixed point of f .
12. Use the Intermediate Value Theorem to show that x31 + x11 + 1 = 0 has a real root.
13. Does the equation sin x =

2x+1
x2

have a solution in the interval [0, ]?

14. Show that the function f (x) = x2 is uniformly continuous on (0, 1) but not uniformly continuous on R.
2

15. Discuss the uniform continuity of the function f (x) = ex sin x2 on (0, 1).
16. Discuss the differentiability of
(

f (x) =

x2 sin x1
0

if x 6= 0;
if x = 0

at x = 0.
17. Let f be differentiable on R, and let sup |f 0 (x)| < 1. Let s0 R, and for n 1 define
R

sn = f sn1 . Prove that {sn } is a convergent sequence.


18. Suppose f : R R is differentiable on R and satisfies |f (x) f (y)| |x y|2 for all x, y R.
Show that f is constant on R.
19. Let k R. Show that x3 3x = k does not have two distinct zeros in (0, 1).
20. Let f be a continuous function on [0, 1] such that 1 f (x) 1 for all x [0, 1]. Show that
there is a c [0, 1] such that |f (c)|2 = c.
21. Prove that if f , g are differentiable on R, f 0 (x) g 0 (x) on R and f (0) = g(0), then f (x) g(x)
for x 0.
22. Find the first three non-zero terms in Taylors expansion of the function f (x) = sin x about
the point x0 = 2 .
23. Show that the remainder term Rn (x) 0 as n for the function f (x) = log(1 + x),
0 < x < 1.
24. Determine the maximum value of f (x) = ln x/x in (0, ).
25. Prove that the function xx , x > 0 has a maximum at x = 1e .
26. Find the radius of convergence of the following power series:
(a)
(b)
(c)

X
x2n
n=0

an

, a 6= 0;

xn
;
n!nn
n=0

X
n!xn
n=0

nn

;
2

nn
(x 1)n .
(d)
n2
(n
+
1)
n=1
27. Determine if the following functions have Taylors series expansion about 0:
(a) x4 |x|;
(b) x2 sin x1 .

Answers.
1. 0, does not exist.
5. discontinuous.
13. yes.
15. uniformly continuous.
16. differentiable.
22. 1

1
2


2
2

1
24


4
2 .

24. x = e.

26. (a) a; (b) ; (c) 1; (d) |x 1| < e.


27. (a) not possible; (b) not possible.

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