Tutorial Sheet - 4 Autumn 2019

MATHEMATICS-I(MA10001)

1. Show that the functions

 2 2
x +y , if (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
(a) f (x, y) = |x| + |y|
0, if (x, y) = (0, 0)


1 1
x sin + y sin ,
 if x 6= 0, y 6= 0
x y








x sin 1 ,


if x 6= 0, y =0
(b) f (x, y) = x



1


y sin , if x = 0, y 6= 0






 y
0, if x = 0, y =0

are continuous at (0, 0), but fx (0, 0) and fy (0, 0) do not exist.

2. Show that the following functions

xy

 , if (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
(a) f (x, y) = x2 + y2
0, if (x, y) = (0, 0)
 3 3
x + y , if x 6= y
(b) f (x, y) = x−y
0, if x = y


possesses partial derivatives at (0, 0), though it is not continuous at

y x
(a) f (x, y) = x2 tan−1 ( ) − y 2 tan−1 ( )
x y
sin y + cos x
(b) f (x, y) =
x3 + y 3
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2 2
e(x + y ) x
(c) f (x, y) = p − log
2
x +y 2 y
3x2 + 2xy + 5y 2
(d) f (x, y) =
x2 + xy
xy
(e) f (x, y) = sinh( 2 )
x + y2
x3 + 3y 3
(f) f (x, y) =
x2 − 4y 2

4. Find fx (0, 0), fy (0, 0), fx (0, y) and fy (x, 0) for the followings :

 3
 xy , if x2 + y 2 6= 0
(a) f (x, y) = x2 + y 2
0, if x2 + y 2 = 0


(b) f (x, y) = log(1 + xy),

(d) f (x, y) = ex − y − ey − x

5. Discuss the differentiability of the following functions at (0, 0).


2 1 2 1

x sin + y sin , if x 6= 0, y 6= 0
x y








x2 sin 1 ,


if x 6= 0, y = 0
(a) f (x, y) = x



1


y 2 sin , if x = 0, y 6= 0






 y
0, if x = 0, y = 0
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 xy
p , if (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
(b) f (x, y) = x2 + y 2
0, if (x, y) = (0, 0)


1

(x2 + y 2 ) sin , if (x, y) 6= (0, 0);
(c) f (x, y) = x + y2
2
0, if (x, y) = (0, 0).
 2
 xy , if (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
(d) f (x, y) = x2 + y 4
0, if (x, y) = (0, 0)


6. Show that the following functions

0 x2 + y 2 = 0


1
(b) f (x, y) = (xy) 3

are continuous, possess first order partial derivatives but are not differ-
entiable at the origin.

p
7. Prove that the function f (x, y) = |xy| is not differentiable at (0, 0),
but that fx and fy both exists at origin and have the value 0. Show
that fx and fy are not continuous at the origin.

8. For the functions

2 2
xy x − y ,

if (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
(a) f (x, y) = x2 + y 2
0, if (x, y) = (0, 0)

( y
(x2 + y 2 ) tan−1 , if x 6= 0
(b) f (x, y) = x
π y2, if x = 0
2
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 2 2
y x − y , if (x, y) 6= (0, 0)
(c) f (x, y) = x2 + y 2
0, if (x, y) = (0, 0)


Check that fxy (0, 0) 6= fyx (0, 0). Also check the differentiability of the
function f (x, y) at the origin.

9. Find the total differential of the following functions.

2z 3
(a) w =
3(x2 + y 2 )
x
(b) z = tan−1
y
−1
etan (3x + 4y + 5z)
(c) u =
1 + tan(3x + 4y + 5z)
cos(xyz)
(d) w =
y2 ln(x2 z) + x3 y 3
x3 sin y + y 3 cos x
(e) w =
ex ln y + sin y ln x
p
2 2 2
e x +y +z
(f) u = p
x2 + y 2 + z 2
x ln(xy) − sin(y + 2z)
(g) w =
x2 + y 2 + z 2
x z
(h) w = e y + e y

xecos(xy)
(i) z = 2 2
e(x + y )
r
x2
(j) z = log(sin y2 − )
2