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This document contains 14 multi-part math problems involving limits, partial derivatives, directional derivatives, and other calculus topics relating to functions of several variables. The problems cover topics such as finding limits, determining continuity, taking partial derivatives, finding directional derivatives, and relating small changes in functions to incremental changes in their variables.

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This document contains 14 multi-part math problems involving limits, partial derivatives, directional derivatives, and other calculus topics relating to functions of several variables. The problems cover topics such as finding limits, determining continuity, taking partial derivatives, finding directional derivatives, and relating small changes in functions to incremental changes in their variables.

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

I.I.T. MADRAS
MA 1101 Functions of several variables
Exercise Set I: Differential Calculus - 1
(1) Find the limit, if exists:
ey sin x
(a)
lim
x
(x,y)(0,0)

xy+2 x2 y

(b)
lim

x y
(x,y)(0,0)
x6=y

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

xy
x2
(c)
lim
(d)
lim
(x,y)(0,0) |xy|
(x,y)(0,0) x2 y

 3
3
2x
x y
(f)
lim
(e)
lim
cos
2
2
2
x +y
(x,y)(0,0) x + x + y 2
(x,y)(0,0)
At what points (x, y) or (x, y, z) are the functions below continuous?
x2 + y 2
1
(a) g(x, y) = 2
(b) h(x, y, z) = 2
.
x 
3x + 2
x
+
z2 1

3x2 x2 y 2 + 3y 2
for (x, y) 6= (0, 0). Define f (0, 0) in a way that extends f to be
Let f (x, y) = ln
x2 + y 2
continuous at the origin.
p
Given  = 0.05, find a > 0 such that for all (x, y) with x2 + y 2 < ,
y
|f (x, y) f (0, 0)| < , where f (x, y) = 2
.
x +1
f
f
Find x and y :
x
(b) f (x, y) = exy ln y
(a) f (x, y) = 2
x + y2
Find fx , fy and fz :
(a) f (x, y, z) = sin1 (xyz)

(b) f (x, y, z) = yz ln(xy)

(7) Find all the second order partial derivatives:


(a) g(x, y) = x2 y + cos y + y sin x (b) g(x, y) = tan1 (y/x).
(8) Does a function f with continuous first partial derivatives throughout an open region D have to be
continuous on D?
(9) Express w/u and w/v in terms of u and v:
(a) w = 4ex ln y, x = ln(u cos v), y = u sin v.
(b) w = xy + yz + zx, x = u + v, y = u v, z = uv.
(10) Find dy/dx if xey + sin xy + y ln 2 = 0.
~
(11) Find the directional derivative of f at P0 in the direction of A:

~ = 3i 2j
(a) f (x, y) = tan1 (y/x) + 3 sin1 (xy/2), P0 (1, 1), A

~ = i + j + k.
(b) f (x, y, z) = x2 + 2y 2 3z 2 , P0 (1, 1, 1), A
(12) Find the directions in which the functions increase and decrease most rapidly at P0 . Then find the
derivative of the function in these directions:
(a) f (x, y) = x2 + xy + y 2 , P0 (1, 1)

(b) f (x, y, z) = xey + z 2 , P0 (1, ln 2, 1/2).

(13) Find the equation of the tangent plane and normal line at P0 on the given surface.
(a) x2 + y 2 z 2 = 18, P0 (3, 5, 4).

(b) x2 xy y 2 z = 0, P0 (1, 1, 1).

(14) By about how much will g(x, y, z) = x + x cos z y sin z + y will change if the point P moves from
(2, 1, 0) a distance ds = 0.2 unit toward the point (0, 1, 2)?

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