Math 1P05. Assignment 2 (4%).

Due date: Sunday, Feb 25, 11:59pm

NOTE: Students are expected to complete ALL questions on the assignment. However, only
a subset of questions will be considered for marking. Marks will be deducted for incomplete
assignments. Round all the results to two decimal places. Show all your work.

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1. Let f (x) = x x − √
x+3

a) Compute f 0 (x)

b) What is the slope of the tangent line to the graph of f when x = 1?

c) What is the rate of change of the function f at x = 1?

2. The relationship between the amount of money x that Cannon Precision Instruments spends on
advertising and the company’s total sales S(x) is given by the function:
S(x) = −0.002x3 + 0.6x2 + x + 500; (0 ≤ x ≤ 200) , where x is measured in thousands of dollars.

a) Find the rate of change of the sales with respect to the amount of money spent on advertising.

b) What is the rate of change of the sales if amount of money spent on advertising is $100, 000?

c) Are Cannon’s total sales increasing at a faster rate when the amount of money spent on adver-
tising is $150, 000 or $100, 000?

3. Find the derivatives of the following functions at the given point x = x0 :

r
√
q
a) f (x) = x2 + x2 x2 + x, x0 = 1

√
x3 − x
b) f (x) = , x0 = 4
x2
2 +x+ln 2024
c) f (x) = xe2x , x0 = 0

(2x − 1)2
d) f (x) = , x0 = 2
x2 − 1
√
3
2x+6
e) f (x) = x , x0 = 1

f) f (x) = ln(cos 3x), x0 = −π/12

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4. The van der Waals equation for n moles of a gas is P + 2 (V − nb) = n R T , where
V
P is the pressure, V is the volume, T is the temperature of the gas, R is the universal gas
constant and a and b are positive constants that are characteristic of a particular gas.

(a) If T remains constant, use implicit differentiation to find dV /dP (V 0 (P )).

(b) Find the rate of change of volume with respect to pressure of 1 mole of carbon dioxide at a volume
of V = 10 (L) and a pressure of P = 2.5 (atm). Use a = 3.592 (L2 − atm/mole2 ) and b = 0.04267
(L/mole).

5. (Maple Question) Use Maple to find an equation of the tangent line to the graph of the function
2(x2 + y 2 )2 = 25(x2 − y 2 ) (lemniscate) at the point (3, 1) and x2 + y 2 = (2x2 + 2y 2 − x)2 (cardioid)
at the point (0, 1/2).
Take the following steps:

1. Open a new Maple worksheet and on the first line type:

> restart:with(plots);
2. Define the equation:
> eqn := 2(x2 + y2 )2 = 25(x2 − y2 );
3. Use implicit differentiation to find y 0 :
> yp := implicitdiff (eqn, y, x);
4. Plot implicitly and save the plot (no output will be produced if you use a colon):
> plot1 := implicitplot(eqn, x = −4..4, y = −3..3, color = black, linestyle = 1);
5. Define the slope at the point (3, 1):
> b := subs([x = 3, y = 1], yp);
6. Define the tangent line with:
> line := b ∗ (x − 3) + 1;
7. Save the plot with
> plot2 := plot(line, x = −4..4, color = black, linestyle = 2);
8.Now plot both graphs together with:
> display(plot1, plot2);
9. Notice how inaccurate the curve has been plotted, increase the accuracy with the numpoints
command. Redo the first plot with:
> plot1 := implicitplot(eqn, x = −4..4, y = −3..3, color = black, linestyle = 1, numpoints = 10000);
> display(plot1, plot2);
10. Repeat the same steps for the cardioid.
11. Print out one of your graphs and label the point where the tangent touches the curve.
6. Use implicit differentiation to find an equation of the tangent line to the curve at the given point:

a) x2 + 2xy + 4y 2 = 12 at A = (2, 1) (ellipse)

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b) x2/3 + y 2/3 = 4 at A = (−3 3, 1) (astroid)

7. A particle moves along the curve y = 2√sin(πx/2). As the particle passes through the point (1/3, 1),
its x-coordinate increases at a rate of 10 (cm/s). How fast is the distance from the particle to the
origin changing at this instant?