Sample Exercises for Lecture 6 (Week 7)

Topics:

1. Implicit differentiation

2. Derivatives for y = f ( x ) g( x) type functions

3. L’Hospital’s rule

Questions to practice
dy
1. Find the derivative dx at ( x, y) = (1, 0) for ey + sin y + x2 + x = 3.

2. Find the derivatives of the following functions:

(a) y = (2 + sin2 x )cos x (b) y = sin xln x , 0 < x < π

3. Evaluate the following limits. (L’Hospital’s rule) (e) and (i) are harder problems.

x6 + 5x − 6 x2 1
(a) lim (f) lim −
x →1 x4 − 3x + 2 x →1 x − 1
+ ln x
tan−1 x (g) lim
1
−
1
(b) lim
x →0 sin x x →0+ x sin x
ln(e x + 1) (h) lim x2 exp(−2x )
(c) lim x →∞
x →∞ x √
√ ln( x + 1) x2 + 7x + 4
(d) lim x ln x (i) lim √
x →0+ x →0 sin x 3 e x + 8x tan−1 x
h π i tan x − sin x
(e) lim sin( x ) ln cos +x (j) lim
x →0− 2 x →0 x3

x2
4. (a) Use the L’Hospital’s rule to evaluate the limit lim .
x →0+ exp( x )−1
x2 sin 1x
(b) *Furthermore, compute the limit lim exp( x )−1
by a suitable application of the Sandwich
x →0+
Principle (you may check why the L’Hospital’s rule does not work)