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Key Notes: Chapter-5 Continuity and Differentiability

This document summarizes key concepts related to continuity and differentiability. It outlines properties of continuous functions including that the sum, difference, product, and quotient of continuous functions are also continuous. It also notes that every differentiable function is continuous but not vice versa. Standard derivatives of common functions are provided along with the Chain Rule, Logarithmic Differentiation, Rolle's Theorem, and the Mean Value Theorem.

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Key Notes: Chapter-5 Continuity and Differentiability

This document summarizes key concepts related to continuity and differentiability. It outlines properties of continuous functions including that the sum, difference, product, and quotient of continuous functions are also continuous. It also notes that every differentiable function is continuous but not vice versa. Standard derivatives of common functions are provided along with the Chain Rule, Logarithmic Differentiation, Rolle's Theorem, and the Mean Value Theorem.

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Key Notes

Chapter-5

Continuity and Differentiability

• A real valued function is continuous at a point in its domain if the limit of the function at that
point equals the value of the function at that point. A function is continuous if it is continuous
on the whole of its domain.

• Sum, difference, product and quotient of continuous functions are continuous. i.e., if f and g are
continuous functions, then

(f ± g ) ( x ) = f ( x ) ± g ( x ) is continuous.

(f . g) (x) = f (x) . g(x) is continuous.

f  f (x)
  (x) = (wherever g (x) ≠ 0) is continuous.
g g(x)

• Every differentiable function is continuous, but the converse is not true.

• Chain rule is rule to differentiate composites of functions. If f = v o u, t = u (x) and if both


dt dv
and if both and df dv dt
dx dt exist then = =
dx dt dx

• Following are some of the standard derivatives (in appropriate domains):

d
dx
(
sin −1 x =) 1
1− x2

d
dx
( )
cos −1 x = −
1
1− x2

d
dx
(
tan −1 x =) 1
1+ x2

−1
d
dx
(
cos −1 x =)1+ x2

d
dx
(
sec−1 x = ) 1
x 1− x2
Key Notes
−1
d
dx
(
cosec−1x = )
x 1− x2

dx
( )
d x
e = ex

d 1
( log x ) =
dx x

• Logarithmic differentiation is a powerful technique to differentiate functions of the form


f ( x ) = u ( x )  v(x)
Here both f (x) and u (x) need to be positive for this technique to make

sense.

• Rolle’s Theorem: If f: [a, b] → R is continuous on [a, b] and differentiable on (a, b) such that f
(a) = f (b), then there exists some c in (a, b) such that f ′(c) = 0.

• Mean Value Theorem: If f: [a, b] → R is continuous on [a, b] and differentiable on (a, b). Then
f (b) − f (a)
there exists some c in (a, b) such that f '(c) =
b−a

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