Part 2

1. DIFFERENTIATION

I. MCQ (2 Marks each)

dy
1) If y = sec (tan-1 x) then at x = 1 is _____
dx
1
(a) (b) 1 (c) 1 (d) 2
2 2

2) If f(x) = logx (log x) then f (e) is _____

1
(a)1 (b) e (c) (d) 0
e

3) If y  25  16log4 cos x
log5 sin x dy
then  ____
dx
(a)1 (b) 0 (c) 9 (d) cos x – sin x
4) If f (4)  5, f (4)  3, g (6)  7 and R(x) = g[3 + f(x)] then R(4)  _____
(a)35 (b) 12 (c) 7 5 (d) 105

 2x  dy
5) If y  tan 1   , x  (1,1) then  ______ .
1 x 
2
dx
2 2 1
(a) (b) 1 (c) (d)
1 x2 1 x2 1 x2
1
6) If g is the inverse of f and f ( x)  then g ( x)  ______
1 x4
1 4x3 1
(a) (b) (c) (d) 1  [ g ( x)]4
1  [ g ( x)] 4 1 x4 1  [ g ( x)]3

dy
7) If sin-1 (x3 + y3) = a then  ______
dx
x  x2 y2 sin a
(a) (b) (c) 2 (d)
cos a y2 x y

dy
8) If x = cos-1 (t), y  1  t 2 then  ______
dx

(a) t (b) – t (c)  1t (d) 1t

 d 2x
9) If x2 + y2 = 1 then  ______ .
dy 2

(a) x3 (b) y3 (c) – y3 (d)  1

x3
dy
10) If x2 + y2 = t + 1t and x4 + y4 = t2 + 1t 2 then  ______
dx

(b)  y x
x
(c)  x 2 y
y
(a) (d) x
2y
dy
11) If x = a t4 y = 2a t2 then  ______
dx

(a) 1t (b)  1t (c) 1 (d)  1

t2 t2
II. Very Short answer questions ( 1 mark each)

1) Differentiate y  x 2  5 w.r. to x
2) Differentiate y  e tan x w.r. to x
dy
3) If y = sin-1 (2x), find .
dx
4) If f(x) is odd and differentiable, then f (x) is
dy
5) If y  e1log x then find
dx
6) Find the nth order derivative of the function𝑦 = 𝑙𝑜𝑔 𝑥
7) Find the nth order derivative of the function𝑦 = 𝑐𝑜𝑠 𝑥
1
8) Find the nth order derivative of the function𝑦 =
𝑥

III. Short answer questions ( 2 mark each)

dy
1) If y = log [cos(x5)] then find
dx
dy
2) If y  tan x , find
dx
3) Find the derivative of the inverse of function y = 2x3 – 6x and calculate its value
at x = - 2
4) Let f(x) = x5 + 2x – 3 find ( f 1 )(3)
dy
5) If y = cos-1 [sin (4x)], find
dx
  1  cos x 
6) If y  tan 1   , find dy

 1  cos x  dx

dy
7) If x= sin  , y = tan  then find
dx
8) Differentiate sin2 (sin-1 (x2)) w.r. to x

IV. Short answer questions ( 3 mark each)

 
 1  cos 3x
If y  log 
2 dy
1)

 
1  cos 3x
2
, find
dx

  2 
3
2
x  5
If y  log 4    , find dy
2 x
2)   2 x  4  
3
dx
 

 cos x 
3) Differentiate cot 1   w.r. to x
 1  sin x 

 2 cos x  3 sin x 
4) Differentiate sin 1   w.r. to x
 13 
 8x 
5) Differentiate tan 1  2  w.r. to x
 1  15 x 

 x4  y4  dy 12 x 3
6) If log 
5 4 
4 
 2 , show that 
x y  dx 13 y 2

dy sin x
7) If y  cos x  cos x  cos x  ..... , show that 
dx 1  2 y

8) Find the derivative of cos-1x w.r. to 1  x 2

dy sin 2 (a  y )
9) If x sin(a + y) + sin a cos (a + y) = 0 then show that 
dx sin a
dy
10) If y = 5x . x5 . xx . 55, find
dx
V. Long answer questions ( 4 mark each)

1 d2y dy
1) If y  e m tan x , show that (1  x 2 ) 2
 (2 x  m)  0
dx dx
 dy y
2) If x7 . y5 = (x + y)12, show that 
dx x
 1 x2 1 
1  2 x 1  x
2 
3) 
Differentiate tan 
1  tan 
x  w.r. to  1  2x 2 
   

 a cos x  b sin x 
4) If y  sin 1   then find dy

 a b
2 2
 dx

d2y dy
5) If y = cos (m cos-1 x) then show that (1  x 2 ) 2
 x  m2 y  0
dx dx
6) Find the nth order derivative of the function 𝑦 = sin(𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏)
7) Find the nth order derivative of the function 𝑦 = log(𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏)
1
8) Find the nth order derivative of the function 𝑦 = 3𝑥−5
:: Theorems ::

1) If y = f(u) is a differentiable function of u and u = g(x) is a differentiable function

of x such that the composite function y = f[g(x)] is a differentiable function of x
dy dy du dy
then  . Hence find if y = sin2 x
dx du dx dx
2) Suppose y = f(x) is a differentiable function of x on an interval I and y is one-
dy dx 1
one, onto and  0 on I. Also if f ( y ) is differentiable on f(I) then 
dx dy dy
dx

, dy dx  0

3) If x = f(t) and y = g(t) are differentiable functions of t so that y is a differentiable

dy
dy dt
function of x and it dx dt  0 then  .
dx dx
dt