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Worksheet C: Ifferentiation

1. This document contains 19 problems involving differentiation of functions, finding gradients, finding equations of tangents and normals to curves, and word problems involving rates of change. 2. The problems require skills such as finding derivatives, determining gradients at points on curves, finding equations of tangents and normals, relating rates of change to derivatives, and setting up and solving related rate problems. 3. The document tests a wide range of calculus concepts and their applications.

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Worksheet C: Ifferentiation

1. This document contains 19 problems involving differentiation of functions, finding gradients, finding equations of tangents and normals to curves, and word problems involving rates of change. 2. The problems require skills such as finding derivatives, determining gradients at points on curves, finding equations of tangents and normals, relating rates of change to derivatives, and setting up and solving related rate problems. 3. The document tests a wide range of calculus concepts and their applications.

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C1 DIFFERENTIATION Worksheet C

1 Find the gradient at the point with x-coordinate 3 on each of the following curves.
3
a y = x3 b y = 4x − x2 c y = 2x2 − 8x + 3 d y= +2
x

2 Find the gradient of each curve at the given point.


a y = 3x2 + x − 5 (1, −1) b y = x4 + 2x3 (−2, 0)
2 −1
c y = x(2x − 3) (2, 2) d y = x − 2x (2, 3)
2 −2
e y = x + 6x + 8 (−3, −1) f y = 4x + x ( 12 , 6)

3 Evaluate f ′(4) when


1 3
a f(x) = (x + 1)2 b f(x) = x 2 c f(x) = x − 4x−2 d f(x) = 5 − 6x 2

4 The curve with equation y = x3 − 4x2 + 3x crosses the x-axis at the points A, B and C.
a Find the coordinates of the points A, B and C.
b Find the gradient of the curve at each of the points A, B and C.

5 For the curve with equation y = 2x2 − 5x + 1,


dy
a find ,
dx
dy
b find the value of x for which = 7.
dx

6 Find the coordinates of the points on the curve with the equation y = x3 − 8x at which the
gradient of the curve is 4.

7 A curve has the equation y = x3 + x2 − 4x + 1.


a Find the gradient of the curve at the point P (−1, 5).
Given that the gradient at the point Q on the curve is the same as the gradient at the point P,
b find, as exact fractions, the coordinates of the point Q.

8 Find an equation of the tangent to each curve at the given point.


a y = x2 (2, 4) b y = x2 + 3x + 4 (−1, 2)
2 3 2
c y = 2x − 6x + 8 (1, 4) d y = x − 4x + 2 (3, −7)

9 Find an equation of the tangent to each curve at the given point. Give your answers in the form
ax + by + c = 0, where a, b and c are integers.
2
a y = 3 − x2 (−3, −6) b y= (2, 1)
x

c y = 2x2 + 5x − 1 ( 12 , 2) d y=x− 3 x (4, −2)

10 Find an equation of the normal to each curve at the given point. Give your answers in the form
ax + by + c = 0, where a, b and c are integers.
a y = x2 − 4 (1, −3) b y = 3x2 + 7x + 7 (−2, 5)
6
c y = x3 − 8x + 4 (2, −4) d y=x− (3, 1)
x

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C1 DIFFERENTIATION Worksheet C continued

11 Find, in the form y = mx + c, an equation of


a the tangent to the curve y = 3x2 − 5x + 2 at the point on the curve with x-coordinate 2,
b the normal to the curve y = x3 + 5x2 − 12 at the point on the curve with x-coordinate −3.

12 A curve has the equation y = x3 + 3x2 − 16x + 2.


a Find an equation of the tangent to the curve at the point P (2, −10).
The tangent to the curve at the point Q is parallel to the tangent at the point P.
b Find the coordinates of the point Q.

13 A curve has the equation y = x2 − 3x + 4.


a Find an equation of the normal to the curve at the point A (2, 2).
The normal to the curve at A intersects the curve again at the point B.
b Find the coordinates of the point B.

14 f(x) ≡ x3 + 4x2 − 18.


a Find f ′(x).
b Show that the tangent to the curve y = f(x) at the point on the curve with x-coordinate −3
passes through the origin.

15 The curve C has the equation y = 6 + x − x2.


a Find the coordinates of the point P, where C crosses the positive x-axis, and the point Q,
where C crosses the y-axis.
b Find an equation of the tangent to C at P.
c Find the coordinates of the point where the tangent to C at P meets the tangent to C at Q.

16 The straight line l is a tangent to the curve y = x2 − 5x + 3 at the point A on the curve.
Given that l is parallel to the line 3x + y = 0,
a find the coordinates of the point A,
b find the equation of the line l in the form y = mx + c.

16
17 The line with equation y = 2x + k is a normal to the curve with equation y = .
x2
Find the value of the constant k.

18 A ball is thrown vertically downwards from the top of a cliff. The distance, s metres, of the ball
from the top of the cliff after t seconds is given by s = 3t + 5t 2.
Find the rate at which the distance the ball has travelled is increasing when
a t = 0.6,
b s = 54.

19 Water is poured into a vase such that the depth, h cm, of the water in the vase after t seconds is
1
given by h = kt 3 , where k is a constant. Given that when t = 1, the depth of the water in the vase
is increasing at the rate of 3 cm per second,
a find the value of k,
b find the rate at which h is increasing when t = 8.

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