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Calculus I - Assignment 3

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1. (a) Directly using the definition of derivative, compute the derivative of x 2 .
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(b) Directly using the definition of derivative, compute the derivative of x 3 .
(c) Using the result results obtained above and rules for differentiation compute the deriva-
tive of
4 2
x3 − x3 + 1
f (x) = 9 3
x2 + x2 + 1

(d) What is the domain on which f is differentiable?

2. Let f be the function,



1 1
2



 2
x + x 2 , x≤1
f (x) = 1,  1<x<1
 1 √ 1


2
x + √x , x ≥ 1

(a) Show that f (x) is continuous everywhere on R.


(b) Show that f (x) is also differentiable everywhere on R.
(c) Compute the derivative of f .

3. Compute the derivative of the following functions by using rules of differentiation.

(a) y = (1 − x−1 )−1


p √
(b) y = 1/ 3 x + x
u−1
(c) y = ( 2 )4
u +u+1
4. Let ⌊ ⌋ be the floor function i.e. ⌊x⌋ is the biggest integer that is smaller than x. Let ⌈ ⌉
be the ceiling function i.e. ⌈x⌉ is the smallest integer than is bigger than x. Using these let
us define,
 
⌊x⌋
f (x) = ⌈x⌉ x −
2

(a) Show that if n is any integer, then for x ∈ (n, n + 1), the graph of f is a straight line.
Write an equation for f (x) is this interval in terms of n and x.
(b) Use this to show that f is continuous everywhere on R.

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(c) If n is an integer show that f is not differentiable at n.
(d) Show that if x is not an integer, f is differentiable at x.

5. Alternate definitions of derivative: Show that if f is differentiable at x then,


f = −∆x)
(a) (Hint: Try changing variable to ∆x

f (x) − f (x − ∆x)
lim = f ′ (x)
∆x→0 ∆x

(b)
∆x ∆x
 
f x+ −f x−
lim 2 2
= f ′ (x)
∆x→0 ∆x

6. Find an equation of the tangent line to the curve at the given point.
x2 − 1
y= 2 , (0,-1)
x +1
7. Symmetries of derivative

(a) Show that if f is an odd function, the derivative of f is an even function.


(b) Show that if f is an even function, the derivative of f is an odd function.
(c) Use this to show that if f is an even function and f is differentiable at 0 then f ′ (0) = 0.
(d) Find an example of an even function f : R → R such that f is not differentiable at 0.

8. At what points on the curve y = x3 + 3x2 − 9x + 10, is the tangent line horizontal?

9. (a) Let n be an integer. Show that,

d  1  1 1 −1
xn = xn
dx n
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Hint: Use an − bn = (a − b)(an−1 + an−2 b + · · · + abn−2 + bn−1 ) with a = (x + ∆x) n and
1
b = x n to rationalize the limit you need to compute.
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d
(b) What is the domain of dx x n ? (Hint: It depends on whether n is even or odd.)

10. If g(x) = x5 , then show that

g(x) − g(2)
lim = 80
x→2 x−2

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