MTH 112M - 2024

Assignment 1: Polar co-ordinates, Applications of Integration,

1. Find the area of the region in the first quadrant bounded on the left by the Y -axis, below by
√
the curve x = 2 y, above left by the curve x = (y − 1)2 , and above right by the line x = 3 − y.

2. Sketch the graphs of r = −| cos θ| and r2 = − cos θ.

3. Sketch the graphs of r = cos(2θ) and r = sin(2θ). Also, find their points of intersection.

4. Sketch the graph of r = 1+sin θ. Find the area of the region that is inside the circle r = 3 sin θ
and also inside r = 1 + sin θ.

5. A curved wedge is cut from a cylinder of radius 3 by two planes. One plane is perpendicular
to the axis of the cylinder. The second plane crosses the first plane at a 45◦ angle at the
center of the cylinder. Find the volume of the wedge.

6. Let C denote the circular disc of radius b centered at (a, 0) where 0 < b < a. Find the volume
of the torus that is generated by revolving C around the y-axis using

(a) the Washer Method

(b) the Shell Method.

7. Consider the curve C defined by x(t) = cos3 (t), y(t) = sin3 t, 0 ≤ t ≤ π2 .

(a) Find the length of the curve.

(b) Find the area of the surface generated by revolving C about the x-axis.

Assignment 2: Vectors, Curves, Surfaces, Vector Functions

1. Consider the planes x − y + z = 1, x + ay − 2z + 10 = 0 and 2x − 3y + z + b = 0, where a and

b are parameters. Determine the values of a and b such that the three planes

(a) intersect at a single point,

(b) intersect in a line,
(c) intersect (taken two at a time) in three distinct parallel lines.

2. Sketch the surfaces by sketching the cross sections cut from the surfaces by the planes
x = 0, y = 0 and z = 1.
(a) z = x2 (Cylinder) (b) x2 + y 2 = 4 (Circular Cylinder)
(c) 4z = x2 + y 2 (Paraboloid) (d) 4z 2 = x2 + y 2 (Circular cone(s))

3. Sketch the following parametric curves:

(a) R1 (t) = (cos t, sin t, t), t ∈ R

(b) R2 (t) = (t cos t, t sin t, t), t ∈ R
(c) R3 (t) = (t cos t, t sin t, t2 ), t ≥ 0
(d) R4 (t) = (cos2 t, sin2 t, t), t ≥ 0
(e) R5 (t) = (t cos t, t sin t), t ≥ 0
4. The velocity of a particle moving in space is dt d
c(t) = (cos t)~i − (sin t)~j + ~k. Find the particle’s
~
position as a function of t if c(0) = 2~i + k. Also find the angle between its position vector and
the velocity vector.

5. Show that c(t) = sin t2~i + cos t2~j + 5~k has constant magnitude and is orthogonal to its
derivative. Is the velocity vector of constant magnitude?

6. Find the point on the curve c(t) = (5 sin t)~i + (5 cos t)~j + 12t~k at a distance 26π units along
the curve from (0, 5, 0) in the direction of increasing arc length.

7. Reparametrize the curves

t2~ t3 ~
(a) c(t) = 2i + 3 k, 0 ≤ t ≤ 2,
(b) c(t) = 2 cos t~i + 2 sin t~j, 0 ≤ t ≤ 2π

in terms of arc length.

Assignment 3: Functions of several variables (Continuity and Differentiability)

1. Sketch the graphs of the following functions:

(a) F1 (x, y) = x2 + y 2 , (x, y) ∈ R2 .

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(b) F2 (x, y) = x2 + y 2 , (x, y) ∈ R2 .

2. Sketch the (level) surfaces defined as follows:

(a) F1 (x, y, z) = 2 where F1 (x, y, z) = z − (x2 + y 2 ) for all (x, y, z) ∈ R3 .

(b) F2 (x, y, z) = 0 where F2 (x, y, z) = z 2 − (x2 + y 2 ) for all (x, y, z) ∈ R3 .
(c) F3 (x, y, z) = 4 where F3 (x, y, z) = x2 + y 2 for all (x, y, z) ∈ R3 .

3. Identify the points, if any, where the following functions fail to be continuous:
 
xy if xy ≥ 0 xy if xy is rationnal
(i) f (x, y) = (ii) f (x, y) =
−xy if xy < 0 −xy if xy is irrational.

4. Consider the function f : R2 −→R defined by

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

Show that the function satisfy the following:

  h i
(a) The iterated limits lim lim f (x, y) and lim lim f (x, y) exist and equals 0;
x−→0 y−→0 y−→0 x−→0

(b) lim f (x, y) does not exist;

(x,y)−→(0,0)

(c) f (x, y) is not continuous at (0, 0);

(d) the partial derivatives exist at (0, 0).
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5. Let f (x, y) = (x2 +y 2 ) sin x2 +y 2 if (x, y) 6= (0, 0) and 0, otherwise. Show that f is differentiable
2
at every point of R but the partial derivatives are not continuous at (0, 0).

6. Let f (x, y) = |xy| for all (x, y) ∈ R2 . Show that

 (a) f is differentiable at (0, 0.)
(b) fx (0, y0 ) does not exist if y0 6= 0.

Assignment 4: Directional derivatives, Maxima, Minima, Lagrange Multipliers

 
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1. Let f (x, y) = 2 |x|−|y| −|x|−|y| . Is f continuous at (0, 0)? Which directional derivatives
of f exist at (0, 0)? Is f differentiable at (0, 0)?
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2. Let f (x, y) = x2x+yy 2 for (x, y) 6= (0, 0) and f (0, 0) = 0. Show that the directional derivative
of f at (0, 0) in all directions exist but f is not differentiable at (0, 0).

3. Let f (x, y) = x2 ey + cos(xy). Find the directional derivative of f at (1, 2) in the direction
( 35 , 45 ).

4. Find the equation of the surface generated by the normals to the surface x + 2yz + xyz 2 = 0
at all points on the z-axis.

5. Examine the following functions for local maxima, local minima and saddle points:

i) 4xy − x4 − y 4 ii) x3 − 3xy 2

Assignment 5 : Double Integrals

1. Evaluate the following integrals:

√
R1 R 2p
1−x RπRπ sin y R1R1
i) 1 − y 2 dydx ii) y dydx iii) x2 expxy dxdy.
0 0 0x 0y
RR
2. Evaluate xdxdy where R is the region 1 ≤ x(1 − y) ≤ 2 and 1 ≤ xy ≤ 2.
R

3. Using double integral, find the area enclosed by the curve r = sin3θ given in polar cordinates.
2 2
exp−(x +y ) dxdy, where
R R
4. Compute lim
a−→∞
D(a)

i) D(a) = {(x, y) : x2 + y 2 ≤ a2 } and ii) D(a) = {(x, y) : 0 ≤ x ≤ a, 0 ≤ y ≤ a}.

R∞ √ R∞ √
2 π 2 π
Hence prove that (i) e−x dx = 2 (ii) x2 e−x dx = 4 .
0 0

5. Find the volume of the solid which is common to the cylinder x2 + y 2 = 1 and x2 + z 2 = 1.

Assignment 6 : Triple Integrals, Surface Integrals, Line integrals

p dzdydx where W is the ball x2 + y 2 + z 2 ≤ 1.

RR R
1. Evaluate the integral ;
1+x2 +y 2 +z 2
W

2. What is the integral of the function x2 z taken over the entire surface of a right circular
cylinder of height h which stands on the circle x2 + y 2 = a2 . What is the integral of the given
function taken throughout the volume of the cylinder.

3. Find the line integral of the vector field F (x, y, z) = y~i − x~j + ~k along the path c(t) =
t
(cos t, sin t, 2π ), 0 ≤ t ≤ 2π joining (1, 0, 0) to (1, 0, 1).
 T · dR, where C is the circle x2 + y 2 = 1 and T is the unit tangent vector.
R
4. Evaluate
C
R
5. Show that the integral yzdx+(xz +1)dy +xydz is independent of the path C joining (1, 0, 0)
C
and (2, 1, 4).

Assignment 7 : Green’s /Stokes’ /Gauss’ Theorems

1. Use Green’s Theorem to compute (2x2 − y 2 ) dx + (x2 + y 2 ) dy where C is the boundary of

R
C
the region {(x, y) : x, y ≥ 0 & x2 + y 2 ≤ 1}.

−y 3 dx + x3 dy − z 3 dz, where C is the

R
2. Use Stokes’ Theorem to evaluate the line integral
C
intersection of the cylinder x2 + y 2 = 1 and the plane x + y + z = 1 and the orientation of C
corresponds to counterclockwise motion in the xy-plane.
−
→ −
→ −
→ −
→ −
→
3. Let F = |− →
r
r |3
where −
→
r = x i + y j + z k and let S be any surface that surrounds the origin.
RR −
→
Prove that F .n dσ = 4π.
S

4. Let D be the domain inside the cylinder x2 + y 2 = 1 cut off by the planes z = R0Rand z = x + 2.
If F~ = (x2 + yez , y 2 + zex , z + xey ), use the divergence theorem to evaluate F · n dσ.
∂D