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Advanced Differentiation - Non-Calculator: (Total 4 Marks)

1. The document provides problems involving differentiation without a calculator. Questions involve finding derivatives, points of inflection, and tangents to curves. 2. One question asks to find the values of dy/dx when x=5 for the equation 2x^2 - 3y^2 = 2. Another asks to differentiate y=arccos(1-2x^2). 3. Other questions involve finding intervals where derivatives are positive/negative, points of inflection, and intersections between tangents/normals and curves.

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Advanced Differentiation - Non-Calculator: (Total 4 Marks)

1. The document provides problems involving differentiation without a calculator. Questions involve finding derivatives, points of inflection, and tangents to curves. 2. One question asks to find the values of dy/dx when x=5 for the equation 2x^2 - 3y^2 = 2. Another asks to differentiate y=arccos(1-2x^2). 3. Other questions involve finding intervals where derivatives are positive/negative, points of inflection, and intersections between tangents/normals and curves.

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Advanced Differentiation Non-Calculator

dy
1. If 2x2 3y2 = 2, find the two values of when x = 5.
dx

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Answer:

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(Total 4 marks)

2. Differentiate y = arccos (1 2x2) with respect to x, and simplify your answer.

Working:

Answer:

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(Total 4 marks)

7. Give exact answers in this part of the question.

The temperature g (t) at time t of a given point of a heated iron rod is given by

ln t
g (t) = , where t > 0.
t

1
(a) Find the interval where g (t) > 0.
(4)

(b) Find the interval where g (t) > 0 and the interval where g (t) < 0.
(5)

(c) Find the value of t where the graph of g (t) has a point of inflexion.
(3)

(d) Let t* be a value of t for which g (t*) = 0 and g (t*) < 0. Find t*.
(3)

(e) Find the point where the normal to the graph of g (t) at the point
(t*, g (t*)) meets the t-axis.
(3)
(Total 18 marks)

x 1n x k x, x 0
10. Consider the function fk (x) = , where k
0, x0

(a) Find the derivative of fk (x), x > 0.


(2)

(b) Find the interval over which f0 (x) is increasing.


The graph of the function fk (x) is shown below.
(2)

0 A x

(c) (i) Show that the stationary point of fk (x) is at x = ek1.

(ii) One x-intercept is at (0, 0). Find the coordinates of the other x-intercept.
(4)

12. Let f : x esin x.

2
(a) Find f (x).

There is a point of inflexion on the graph of f, for 0 < x < 1.

(b) Write down, but do not solve, an equation in terms of x, that would allow you to find
the value of x at this point of inflexion.

Working:

Answers:

(a) ..................................................................

(b) ..................................................................

(Total 3 marks)

16. For the function f : x 1 sin 2x + cos x, find the possible values of sin x for which f (x) =
2
0.

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Answer:

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(Total 3 marks)

24. Find the gradient of the tangent to the curve 3x2 + 4y2 = 7 at the point where x = 1 and y > 0.

3
Working:

Answer:

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(Total 3 marks)

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29. Consider the function y = tan x 8 sin x.

dy
(a) Find .
dx

dy
(b) Find the value of cos x for which 0.
dx

Working:

Answers:

(a) ..................................................................
(b) ..................................................................

(Total 3 marks)

31. Let y = sin (kx) kx cos (kx), where k is a constant.

dy
Show that k 2 x sin (kx).
dx
(Total 3 marks)

37. A curve has equation x3 y2 = 8. Find the equation of the normal to the curve at the point (2,
1).

Working:

Answer:

5
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(Total 6 marks)

41. Consider the function f (t) = 3 sec2t + 5t.

(a) Find f (t).

(b) Find the exact values of

(i) f ();

(ii) f ();

Working:

Answers:

(a) ...........................................................
(b) (i) ...
(ii) ...

(Total 6 marks)

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116. The tangent to the curve y2 x3 at the point P(1, 1) meets the x-axis at Q and the y-axis at R.
Find the ratio PQ : QR.

Working:

Answer:

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(Total 3 marks)

1
117. If f (x) = ln(2x 1), x , find
2

(a) f (x);

(b) the value of x where the gradient of f (x) is equal to x.

Working:

Answers:

(a) ..................................................................
(b) ..................................................................

(Total 3 marks)

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118. Find the x-coordinate, between 2 and 0, of the point of inflexion on the graph of the

function f : x x 2 e x . Give your answer to 3 decimal places.


Working:

Answer:

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(Total 3 marks)

120. Consider the tangent to the curve y = x3 + 4x2 + x 6.

(a) Find the equation of this tangent at the point where x = 1.

(b) Find the coordinates of the point where this tangent meets the curve again.

Working:

Answers:

(a) ..................................................................
(b) ..................................................................

(Total 3 marks)

128. Find the x-coordinate of the point of inflexion on the graph of y = xex, 3 x 1.

8
Working:

Answer:

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(Total 6 marks)

x2
129. The function f is defined by f (x) = x , for x > 0.
2

(a) (i) Show that

2 x x 2 ln 2
f (x) =
2x

(ii) Obtain an expression for f (x), simplifying your answer as far as possible.
(5)

(b) (i) Find the exact value of x satisfying the equation f (x) = 0

(ii) Show that this value gives a maximum value for f (x).
(4)

(c) Find the x-coordinates of the two points of inflexion on the graph of f.
(3)
(Total 12 marks)

132. The function f is given by f (x) = x 2 , x 0. There is a point of inflexion on the graph of f
5

x
at the point P. Find the coordinates of P.

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Working:

Answer:

(Total 6 marks)

133. Let f (x) = x 5 x 5 , x 2.


2

x2

(a) Find f (x).

(b) Solve f (x) > 2.

Working:

Answers:

(a)

(b)

(Total 6 marks)

134. Given that y = e x find

10
2
(a) d y;
dx 2
(3)

(b) the exact values of the x-coordinates of the points of inflexion on the graph of y =
2
e x , justifying that they are points of inflexion.

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(3)
(Total 6 marks)

138. (a) Sketch and label the curves

y = x2 for 2 x 2, and y = 1 ln x for 0 < x 2.


2
(2)

(b) Find the x-coordinate of P, the point of intersection of the two curves.
(2)

(c) If the tangents to the curves at P meet the y-axis at Q and R, calculate the area of the
triangle PQR.
(6)

(d) Prove that the two tangents at the points where x = a, a > 0, on each curve are always
perpendicular.
(4)
(Total 14 marks)

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