Math 41 Final Exam — December 10, 2012

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Valentin Buciumas Jenya Sapir Li-Cheng Tsai Dan Jerison
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• Complete the following problems. In order to receive full credit, please show all of your work and
justify your answers. You do not need to simplify your answers unless specifically instructed to do
so. You may use any result proved in class or the text, but be sure to clearly state the result before
using it, and to verify that all hypotheses are satisfied.

• Please check that your copy of this exam contains 16 numbered pages and is correctly stapled.

• This is a closed-book, closed-notes exam. No electronic devices, including cellphones, headphones,

or calculation aids, will be permitted for any reason.

• You have 3 hours. Your organizer will signal the times between which you are permitted to be
writing, including anything on this cover sheet, and to have the exam booklet open. During these
times, the exam and all papers must remain in the testing room. When you are finished, you must
hand your exam paper to a member of teaching staff.

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answer continues there. Do not unstaple or detach pages from this exam.

• Please sign the following:

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• Formulas for Reference:

4
Vsphere = πr3 SAsphere = 4πr2 Acircle = πr2
3

1
Vcylinder = πr2 h Vcone = πr2 h
3

n n n  2
X n(n + 1) X
2 n(n + 1)(2n + 1) X
3 n(n + 1)
i= i = i =
2 6 2
i=1 i=1 i=1
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1. (10 points) Find each of the following limits, with justification. If there is an infinite limit, then explain
whether it is ∞ or −∞.
Rx
ln(t + 1) dt
(a) lim 0
x→0 x2

1/x
(b) lim (1 + sin x)
x→0+
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2. (10 points) In each part below, use the method of your choice, but show the steps in your computations.
(a) The curve with equation xy = 2y − 1 passes through (x, y) = (1, 1). Find the equation of the line
tangent to the curve at this point.

x2
et
Z
(b) Find h0 (x) if h(x) = dt
2 t2 + 3
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3. (10 points) For this problem, we try to solve the equation x4 − 4x + 2 = 0.

(a) Show that this equation has at least one solution between x = 0 and x = 1. (State clearly what
results you use and why they apply.)

(b) It is a fact that this equation has a unique solution x = c between x = 0 and x = 1 (but you do not
need to prove this). Use Newton’s method, with initial guess x1 = 0, to compute the successive
approximations x2 and x3 for c.
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4. (10 points)
(a) Melted ice cream drips into a large waffle-style cone of height 16 cm and radius 3 cm. (This waffle
cone is shaped like a standard right circular cone.) At the moment when the depth of ice cream
is 8 cm, the rate of inflow of ice cream is 0.5 cm3 /sec. How fast is the level of liquid ice cream
rising in the cone at this moment?
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(b) (Note: ice cream imagery aside, this part is independent of any fact from part (a).)
The source of the melted ice cream from part (a) is a large spherical scoop; the scoop is melting in
such a way that it always maintains its spherical shape as it shrinks in size, but at any instant its
rate of change of volume, dV
dt , is equal to the product of its surface area, A, times a fixed constant:
specifically,
dVsphere 1
=− Asphere
dt 250
(Here A and V are measured in square centimeters and cubic centimeters, respectively, and time
is measured in seconds.) Show that the radius of the scoop is shrinking at a constant rate, and
find this rate.
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5. (19 points) Let g be the function defined on the interval {−1 ≤ x ≤ 1} by: g(x) = cos(πt2 ) dt.
−1
(a) Find g(−1) and g 0 (−1).

(b) It is a fact that g(1) = 2g(0); explain why this is true.

(c) On what parts of the domain {−1 ≤ x ≤ 1} is g increasing? decreasing? Explain completely.
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(d) On what parts of this domain is the graph of g concave upward? downward? Explain completely.

(e) Using the information you’ve found in parts (a)-(d), sketch the graph of g on the domain [−1, 1].
Label any extreme or inflection points by their x-coordinate; also use the fact that g(0) ≈ 0.37.
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6. (12 points)
(a) Give a precise statement of the Mean Value Theorem.

(b) Let f (x) = x − e ln x. Use the Mean Value Theorem to show that if b is any number larger than e,
then f (b) > 0.

(c) Which is larger, eπ or π e ? Justify your answer. (Hint: you can use the result of part (b) even if
you did not prove it.)
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7. (12 points) A particle moving along a line has position at time t (in minutes) given by
2
s(t) = t3 − 3t2 + 4t meters.
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(a) Find the initial velocity and acceleration; that is, the velocity and acceleration at t = 0.

(b) At what time, after t = 0, does the particle first come to a stop?
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For easy reference, the particle’s position function is s(t) = 23 t3 − 3t2 + 4t.
(c) Find the position of the particle at the second time the particle comes to a stop after t = 0.

(d) What is the total distance traveled by the particle between t = 0 and t = 3? Give all the steps in
your reasoning.
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8. (15 points) Let f (x) = x2 − 1.

(a) On the axes below, sketch a graph of f over the domain [1, 3], and then draw the approximating
rectangles that are used to estimate the area under the curve (and above the x-axis) between
x = 1 and x = 3 according to the Midpoint Rule; use n = 4 rectangles.

(b) Write an expression involving only numbers that represents the area estimate using the rectangles
described above. (You do not have to expand or simplify the expression!)
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(c) Find the exact area of the same region by evaluating the limit of a Riemann sum that uses the
Right Endpoint Rule. (That is, do not use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.) Show all
reasoning.
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9. (5 points) Verify the following indefinite integral expression by differentiation, showing your steps:
Z
1 1 x
x 2 dx = x + 1 + ex − ln(e + 1) + C
(1 + e )
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10. (9 points) Suppose r(t) is a continuous function which gives the instantaneous rate of change of North
America’s pigeon population, measured in thousands of pigeons per year, where t is measured in years
since January 1, 1900.
Z 80
(a) What does the quantity r(t) dt represent? Express your answer in terms relevant to this
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situation, and make it understandable to someone who does not know any calculus; be sure to
use any units that are appropriate, and also explain what the sign of this quantity would signify.

Z x+10
(b) Define a function Q by Q(x) = r(t) dt. In the context of this application, what does the
x
value of Q(x) represent in terms of x? Follow the same guidelines as in part (a) in expressing
your answer.

(c) Suppose Q has a critical number at x = c. Give a simple condition involving c that must hold for
the function r; your answer should not involve integrals.
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11. (22 points) Evaluate each of the following integrals, showing all reasoning.
Z  
x−1 2 1
(a) √
3
+√ + sec x tan x + x dx
x 1 − x2 2

Z
sin θ
(b) dθ
1 + cos2 θ
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Z
(c) t2 ln(2t) dt

Z π2 √
(d) cos( x) dx
0
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