Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India

Engineering Mathematics (MTH174)

Tutorial sheet - 6

1. Determine the limits if exists:

 
(a) lim(x,y)→(1,1) x2 + y 2 − 1 1
(i) lim(x,y)→(0,0) cot−1
(b) lim(x,y)→(2,1) x2 + 2x − y 2 x + y2
2

x+y (y − 1) tan2 (x)

(c) lim(x,y)→(0,0) 2 (j) lim(x,y)→(0,1)
x + y2 + 1 x2 (y 2 − 1)
x3 + y 3 (x − 1) sin(y)
(d) lim(x,y)→(0,0) 2 (k) lim(x,y)→(1,0)
x + y2 y ln(x)
1−x−y
 
1
(e) lim(x,y)→(0,0) (x2 + y 2 ) sin (l) lim(x,y)→(0,0)
xy x2 + y 2
1 x
(f) lim(x,y)→(0,0) y + x cos (m) lim(x,y)→(0,0)
y x + y2
2

x x2
(g) lim(x,y)→(0,0) p (n) lim(x,y)→(0,0)
x2 + y 2 x3 + y 3
x3 − y 3 x4 y 2
(h) lim(x,y)→(1,−1) (o) lim(x,y)→(0,0)
x−y (x4 + y 2 )2

2. Discuss the continuity of following functions at (0, 0)

 (x − y)2 x2 + y 2
 
, (x, y) 6= (0, 0) , (x, y) 6= (0, 0)

(a) f (x, y) = x2 + y 2 (d) f (x, y) = xy
0, (x, y) = (0, 0) 0, (x, y) = (0, 0)
 

x2 + y 2
 
1 2 , (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
+ y , (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
 
(b) f (x, y) = 1 + e1/x (e) f (x, y) = tan(xy)
 0, (x, y) = (0, 0) 
0, (x, y) = (0, 0)
 exy
 
xy(x − y)
, (x, y) 6= (0, 0) , (x, y) 6= (0, 0)

(c) f (x, y) = 2
x +1 (f) f (x, y) = x2 + y 2
 0, (x, y) = (0, 0) 
0, (x, y) = (0, 0)

3. Show that the function

 p xy

, (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
f (x, y) = x2 + y 2
 0, (x, y) = (0, 0)

has partial derivatives fx (0, 0), fy (0, 0), and it is continuous at (0,0).

4. Find the first order partial derivatives for the following functions at the specified points

(a) f (x, y) = ln(x/y) at (2,3)

(b) f (x, y) = ex/y + ez/y at (1,1,1)
p
(c) f (x, y, z) = ln(x + y 2 + z 2 ) at (2,3,4)

5. Find dw/dt in following problems

(a) w = x2 + y 2 , x = (t2 − 1)/t, y = t/(t2 + 1), at t = 1.

(b) w = ex sin(y + 2z), x = 1, y = 1/t, z = t2 .

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 (c) w = z ln y + y ln z + xyz, x = sin(t), y = t2 + 1, z = cos−1 t at t = 0.

6. Verify the following results

∂z ∂z
(a) If z = f (ax + by), then b −a = 0.
∂x ∂y
∂z ∂z
(b) If z = log[(x2 − y 2 )/(x2 + y 2 )], then x +y = 0.
∂x ∂y
∂u ∂u ∂u
(c) If u = f (x − y, y − z, z − x), then + + = 0.
∂x ∂y ∂z
(d) If z = f (x, y), x = u cos(α) − v sin(α), y = u sin(α) + v cos(α), where α is a constant,
then  2  2  2  2
∂f ∂f ∂f ∂f
+ = + .
∂u ∂v ∂x ∂y
∂z ∂z
(e) If z = ln(u2 + v), u = exp(x + y 2 ), v = x + y 2 , then 2y − = 0.
∂x ∂y