• Home
  • Textbooks
  • Fundamentals of Mathematical Analysis
  • Differentiation

Fundamentals of Mathematical Analysis

Rod Haggarty

Chapter 6

Differentiation - all with Video Answers

Educators


Section 1

Differentiable functions

02:21

Problem 1

Use the limit definition of differentiability to find the derivatives of the following functions:
(a) $f(x)=x^{4}+3 x$
(b) $f(x)=1 / x$

Dakarai Holcomb
Dakarai Holcomb
Numerade Educator
07:46

Problem 2

Prove the sum and reciprocal rules (see 6.1.3) for differentiable functions.

Dorcas Attuabea Addo
Dorcas Attuabea Addo
Numerade Educator
01:09

Problem 3

Find the left- and right-hand derivatives of each of the following at the point indicated:
(a) $f(x)=x-|x| \quad$ at $x-2$
(b) $f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{ll}\frac{x}{1+\mathrm{e}^{1 / x}} & \text { if } x \neq 0 \\ 0 & \text { if } x=0\end{array}\right.$ at $x=0$

Tyler Moulton
Tyler Moulton
Numerade Educator
04:16

Problem 4

For each of the following functions use the rules for differentiability to prove that $f$ is differentiable. You may assume that the identity, constant, exponential and sine and cosine functions are differentiable on R:
(a) $f(x)=\mathrm{c}^{x} \cos x+1$
(b) $f(x)=\begin{gathered}1 \\ 1+x^{4}\end{gathered}$
(c) $f(x)=\frac{1+x^{2}}{1+x^{4}}$
(d) $f(x)-\tan ^{3} x \quad\left(x \neq n+\frac{1}{2} \pi\right)$
(e) $f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{cl}x^{2} \cos \left(\begin{array}{c}1 \\ x\end{array}\right) & \text { if } x \neq 0 \\ 0 & \text { if } x=0\end{array}\right.$
(f) $f(x)=x^{1 / 5} \quad(x>0)$
(g) $f(x)=\sinh ^{1} x \quad($ Hint $:$ The bijective function sinh: $\mathbb{R} \rightarrow[8$ is defined by sinh $x=\frac{1}{2}\left(\mathrm{c}^{x}-\mathrm{e}^{-x}\right)$.)

Lauren Shelton
Lauren Shelton
Numerade Educator
01:02

Problem 5

Calculate $f^{\prime}$ for each of the functions in Question 4 .

Tyler Moulton
Tyler Moulton
Numerade Educator