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Tutorial Sheet 6multivariate Calculus

This document contains an engineering mathematics tutorial sheet with various limits, continuity questions, and partial derivative problems. It includes determining limits of multivariate functions, discussing continuity of functions of two variables, finding first order partial derivatives, evaluating derivatives of functions with respect to time where variables are functions of time, and verifying results about partial derivatives.

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Tutorial Sheet 6multivariate Calculus

This document contains an engineering mathematics tutorial sheet with various limits, continuity questions, and partial derivative problems. It includes determining limits of multivariate functions, discussing continuity of functions of two variables, finding first order partial derivatives, evaluating derivatives of functions with respect to time where variables are functions of time, and verifying results about partial derivatives.

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Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India

Engineering Mathematics (MTH174)


Tutorial sheet - 6

1. Determine the limits if exists:


 
(a) lim(x,y)→(1,1) x2 + y 2 − 1 1
(i) lim(x,y)→(0,0) cot−1
(b) lim(x,y)→(2,1) x2 + 2x − y 2 x + y2
2

x+y (y − 1) tan2 (x)


(c) lim(x,y)→(0,0) 2 (j) lim(x,y)→(0,1)
x + y2 + 1 x2 (y 2 − 1)
x3 + y 3 (x − 1) sin(y)
(d) lim(x,y)→(0,0) 2 (k) lim(x,y)→(1,0)
x + y2 y ln(x)
1−x−y
 
1
(e) lim(x,y)→(0,0) (x2 + y 2 ) sin (l) lim(x,y)→(0,0)
xy x2 + y 2
1 x
(f) lim(x,y)→(0,0) y + x cos (m) lim(x,y)→(0,0)
y x + y2
2

x x2
(g) lim(x,y)→(0,0) p (n) lim(x,y)→(0,0)
x2 + y 2 x3 + y 3
x3 − y 3 x4 y 2
(h) lim(x,y)→(1,−1) (o) lim(x,y)→(0,0)
x−y (x4 + y 2 )2

2. Discuss the continuity of following functions at (0, 0)

 (x − y)2 x2 + y 2
 
, (x, y) 6= (0, 0) , (x, y) 6= (0, 0)

(a) f (x, y) = x2 + y 2 (d) f (x, y) = xy
0, (x, y) = (0, 0) 0, (x, y) = (0, 0)
 

x2 + y 2
 
1 2 , (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
+ y , (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
 
(b) f (x, y) = 1 + e1/x (e) f (x, y) = tan(xy)
 0, (x, y) = (0, 0) 
0, (x, y) = (0, 0)
 exy
 
xy(x − y)
, (x, y) 6= (0, 0) , (x, y) 6= (0, 0)

(c) f (x, y) = 2
x +1 (f) f (x, y) = x2 + y 2
 0, (x, y) = (0, 0) 
0, (x, y) = (0, 0)

3. Show that the function


 p xy

, (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
f (x, y) = x2 + y 2
 0, (x, y) = (0, 0)

has partial derivatives fx (0, 0), fy (0, 0), and it is continuous at (0,0).

4. Find the first order partial derivatives for the following functions at the specified points

(a) f (x, y) = ln(x/y) at (2,3)


(b) f (x, y) = ex/y + ez/y at (1,1,1)
p
(c) f (x, y, z) = ln(x + y 2 + z 2 ) at (2,3,4)

5. Find dw/dt in following problems

(a) w = x2 + y 2 , x = (t2 − 1)/t, y = t/(t2 + 1), at t = 1.


(b) w = ex sin(y + 2z), x = 1, y = 1/t, z = t2 .

1
(c) w = z ln y + y ln z + xyz, x = sin(t), y = t2 + 1, z = cos−1 t at t = 0.

6. Verify the following results


∂z ∂z
(a) If z = f (ax + by), then b −a = 0.
∂x ∂y
∂z ∂z
(b) If z = log[(x2 − y 2 )/(x2 + y 2 )], then x +y = 0.
∂x ∂y
∂u ∂u ∂u
(c) If u = f (x − y, y − z, z − x), then + + = 0.
∂x ∂y ∂z
(d) If z = f (x, y), x = u cos(α) − v sin(α), y = u sin(α) + v cos(α), where α is a constant,
then  2  2  2  2
∂f ∂f ∂f ∂f
+ = + .
∂u ∂v ∂x ∂y
∂z ∂z
(e) If z = ln(u2 + v), u = exp(x + y 2 ), v = x + y 2 , then 2y − = 0.
∂x ∂y

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