10-11-2012, 09:04 PM | #1 |
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First-Year Calculus Problems... :(
Sooo, I am having immense trouble with some (all) of my assignments due to the fact that I am having serious family troubles
I totally have no idea how to do these questions and 8 of these assignments makes up 20% of my final mark... K so here it goes - QUESTION 1: Find all points on the graph of y=x^3+8x^2+5x where the tangent line is horizontal. I think for this one I find y' and set it = to 0 then solve for the values of x? Heres my work: y' = 3x^2+16x+5 y' = (3x+1)(x+5) = 0 x = -1/3, -5 QUESTION 2: This one effs me up because I hate trig identities... Find the x-coordinate of all points on the curve: y = 10xcos(5x)-25sqrt(2)x^2-97 , pi/5<x<2pi/5 Where the tangent line passes through the point (0,-97) (not on the curve) For this one, I honestly was totally lost after I took the derivative (right I think???) y' = 10cos(5x) + (10x(-sin(5x)+5cos(x)))-50sqrt(2) would I put my original equation into the slope formula: m = (y2 - y1)/(x2 - x1) to give me: [10xcos(5x) - 25sqrt(2)x^2 - 97) - 97] / x2 - 0 then set this formula equal to y' to find the m' [10xcos(5x) - 25sqrt(2)x^2 - 97) - 97] / x - 0 = 10cos(5x) + (10x(-sin(5x)+5cos(x)))-50sqrt(2) I then multiplied both sides by x to get rid of the fraction. I don't know how to go any further... I am terrible with trigonometric functions. QUESTION 3: Let y = [F(tan(6x))]^6 for some differentiable function f. Determine dy/dx at x = 0 given that f(0) = 3 and f'(0) = 1/81 sooo I think I got this bitch in the bag... I hope... So first off I did implicit differentiation to find: [6f(tan(6x))]^5 (f'tan(6x) + f(6sec^2(6x) I then replaced the f with 3 and the f' with 1/81 and x with 0 and I get an answer of 18. Right? or wrong? QUESTION 4: Determine Values of A and B so that the function below is differentiable at x = -4. F(x) = ax^2 - 7x + 81 x< or equal to -4 bx+1 x > -4 So first I found a general equation by making the 2 equations = then, I guess taking the limits from -4 from the negative and -4 from the positive of the appropriate equations and setting them equal to each other to get 16a + 4b = -108 I then took the derivative of the first equation to find a: I found a to be -7/8 and then plugged it into the general equation I found to get b = 23.5 Thanks guys! Im in desperate need of help i'll send a generous amount of credits to whoever helps me
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10-11-2012, 09:32 PM | #2 |
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Re: First-Year Calculus Problems... :(
I haven't had to do any of this recent enough to be 100% sure about how your work came out, but a lot of it looks correct. I can tell you, though, that for part of the derivative for Q2 you made a boo boo:
When you did the Chain Rule for 10xcos(5x), you got for the second term: (10x(-sin(5x)+5cos(x))) when actually I think it's: -50xsin(5x) which comes from 10x * -5sin(5x) Hope this helps, if only a tiny bit. |
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Re: First-Year Calculus Problems... :(
Could someone halp me work through these to see if im correct?
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10-11-2012, 10:12 PM | #4 |
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Re: First-Year Calculus Problems... :(
It's been a while since I took calculus; so far, I've done the first two problems.
With the first one, your x values are correct; now, you just have to find the corresponding y values. With the second one, Tidus was right about the chain rule. Also, you're subtracting -97, NOT positive 97. You should have a slope problem of [(10*x*cos(5x) - 25*sqrt(2)*x^2 - 97) - (-97)]/[x - 0] = 10*cos(5x) - 50*x*sin(5x) - 50*sqrt(2)*x. The 97's will cancel out, and you can then divide the left side by x, and you're left with 10*cos(5x) - 25*sqrt(2)*x = 10*cos(5x) - 50*x*sin(5x) - 50*sqrt(2)*x. Then, you can cancel the 10*cos(5x) terms, add 25*sqrt(2)*x to both sides, and factor out the x's to get -50*sin(5x) - 25*sqrt(2) = 0. The rest should be finding out what x is equal to. EDIT: Okay, for question 4, for F to be differentiable at x = -4, the 2 equations have to be equal at x = -4 and the slopes of the 2 equations have to be equal at x = -4. So, you have to take the derivatives of both equations of F and set them equal to each other. This will leave you with 2 equations using a and b. I had an explanation for question 3, but I deleted it because I wasn't sure if I did it right myself. Sorry.
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10-11-2012, 10:44 PM | #5 |
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Re: First-Year Calculus Problems... :(
I can probably help over skype or something if you need help? I know how looking at a whole bunch of text at once can be intimidating sometimes.
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10-12-2012, 02:30 AM | #7 |
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That was a fun skype session Objective complete...huzzah! ( ^)>!
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