Problem sheet 1

Course Name: Engineering Mathematics - I

1. For the folowing functions: (a) find the function’s domain, (b) find the function’s range,
(c) describe the function’s level curves, (d) find the boundary of the function’s domain,
(e) determine if the domain is an open region, a closed region, or neither, and (f ) decide
if the domain is bounded or unbounded.
(a) f (x, y) = ln(x2 + y 2 )
2 +y 2 )
(b) f (x, y) = e−(x
(c) f (x, y) = 4x2 + y 2 + 1
(d) f (x, y) = sin−1 (y − x)
p
(e) f (x, y) = 1 + 4 − y 2
2. Find an equation for the level curve/level surface of the function that passes through the
given point.
√ √
(a) f (x, y) = 16 − x2 − y 2 , (2 2, 2).
√
(b) f (x, y) = x2 − 1, (1, 0).
√
(c) f (x, y, z) = x − y − ln z, (3, −1, 1).
3. The Sandwich Theorem for functions of two variables states that if g(x, y) ≤ f (x, y) ≤
h(x, y) for all (x, y) ̸= (x0 , y0 ) in a disk centered at (x0 , y0 ) and if g and h have the same
finite limit L as (x, y) → (x0 , y0 ), then

lim f (x, y) = f (x0 , y0 ).

(x,y)→(x0 ,y0 )

Use it to deduce that

lim y sin (1/x) = 0.
(x,y)→(0,0)

4. Find the limit, if it exists, or show that the limit does not exist.

sin (x2 +y 2 )
(a) lim x2 +y 2
(x,y)→(0,0)
 
|(x|+|y|
(b) lim tan−1 x2 +y 2
(x,y)→(0,0)
xy+yz
(c) lim 2 2 2
(x,y,z)→(0,0,0) x +y +z

5. At what points in the plane/space are the following functions continuous?

1
(a) g(x, y) = x2 −y

1
 (b)
( 2 −y2
x xx2 +y 2 if (x, y) ̸= (0, 0)
f (x, y) =
1 if (x, y) = (0, 0),

1
(c) h(x, y, z) = |xy|+|z|
 2 2 2 2
6. Let f (x, y) = ln 3x −x y +3y
x2 +y 2
. Is it possible to define f (0, 0) in a way that extends f to
be continuous at the origin.

7. Find h(x, y) = g(f (x, y)) and the set of points at which h is continuous, where g(t) =
√
t2 + t, f (x, y) = 2x + 3y − 6.

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