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Tutorial: Unit I
1.1 Mean Value Theorems:

1. Determine whether Rolle's Theorem applies to the following function on the given
interval. Justify your answer by verifying all the necessary conditions.
 x2  6 
log   on  2,3 . Ans: c  6
 5x 
2. Analyze the following functions to determine whether Rolle's Theorem is applicable on
the given interval. If applicable, find the value(s) of c satisfying Rolle's Theorem.
Otherwise, identify the condition(s) that are not satisfied.
1  3  x  1 on  0, 2
2
Ans: Not applicable
3. Analyze the following functions to determine whether Rolle's Theorem is applicable on the
given interval. If applicable, find the value(s) of c satisfying Rolle's Theorem.
   
cos 2 x on  , Ans: c  0
 4 4 
4. Analyze the following functions to determine whether Rolle's Theorem is applicable on the
given interval. If applicable, find the value(s) of c satisfying Rolle's Theorem.
 x  1 x  3 e x on 1,3 Ans: c  3  2
  5 
5. Verify Rolle’s Theorem for f  x   e  x  sin x  cos x  in  ,  . If applicable, find
4 4 
the value(s) of c satisfying Rolle's Theorem.

Ans: The theorem is verified and c  .
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6. The following is the graph of y  x 2  2 x  1 in the interval [-2,0].

a) Is Rolle’s theorem applicable to the above function?

b) From the graph, observe at what point the tangent to the graph is parallel to the
x-axis?
c) Verify your answer of ‘b’ part by applying Rolle’s theorem to the given
function.

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7. A particle is travelling along the path f (t )  t 2  2t , 0  t  2 . Apply Rolle’s theorem

to find at what point of time the velocity of the particle is zero.

8. A particle is travelling along the path f (t )  t 2  4t , 0  t  4 . Using Rolle’s Theorem,

determine the time at which the velocity of the particle becomes zero.
9. A company's profit (in thousand rupees) is modeled by P (t )  2t 2  6t , 0  t  3
Apply Rolle's Theorem to determine the time at which the instantaneous rate of change
of profit is zero.
10. The height of water (in metres) in a tank is modeled by H (t )  6t 2  12t . 0  t  4
Apply Rolle's Theorem to find the time at which the water level stops rising
momentarily.
11. Examine the validity of the conditions and the conclusion of Lagrange’s Mean Value
on  2, 2 . If applicable, find the value(s) of c satisfying
2
theorem for the function x 3

LMVT Theorem. Ans: Not applicable

12. Analyze the following functions to determine whether LMVT Theorem is applicable on
the given interval. If applicable, find the value(s) of c satisfying LMVT Theorem.
1 1  3
x on  ,3 Ans: c 
x 2  2

13. Examine the validity of the conditions and the conclusion of Lagrange’s Mean Value
theorem for the function 2 x 2  7 x  10 on  2,5 . If applicable, find the value(s) of c
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satisfying LMVT Theorem. Ans: c  .
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14. Analyze the following functions to determine whether LMVT Theorem is applicable
on the given interval. If applicable, find the value(s) of c satisfying LMVT Theorem.

 x  1 x  2  on  0, 4 Ans: c  2
15. Show that the chord joining the points x  0, x  2 on the curve y  x3  x is parallel to
2
the tangent to the curve at x  .
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16. At what point is the tangent to the curve y  x n parallel to the chord joining
a
 0, 0  and  a, a  ?
n
Ans: at x  1
n n 1
17. The following is the graph of y  x 2  2 x  1 in the interval [-1,0].

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a) Find the slope of the line joining (-1,0) and (0,1).

b) Use LMVT to find a point ‘c’ such that the tangent at ‘c’ to this graph is
parallel to the line joining (-1,0) and (0,1).

18. A trucker travels 163 miles on a toll road with a speed limit of 70 miles per hour. He
took 2 hours for completing the journey. Apply Lagrange’s Mean Value Theorem to
check whether the trucker should be issued a speeding ticket.
19. A car travels 180 miles on a highway with a speed limit of 75 miles per hour and
completes the journey in 2 hours. Using Lagrange's Mean Value Theorem, determine
whether the driver must have exceeded the speed limit during the journey.
20. The charge stored in a battery increases smoothly from 15 Ah to 55 Ah in 4 hours.
Show that at some instant the charging rate was exactly 10 Ah/hour.
21. A manufacturing unit produces 800 components at 8 AM and 1400 components by 2
PM. Production varies continuously. Show that there was some instant when the
production rate was exactly 100 components/hour.
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22. If f  x  and g  x  are respectively x and then prove that c of Cauchy’s mean
x
value theorem is the geometric mean between a and b , a  0, b  0 .
23. Verify Cauchy’s mean value theorem for f  x   3x  2, g  x   x 2  1 on 1  x  4
1 1
24. Considering the functions 2
and , prove that ‘c’ of Cauchy’s mean value theorem is
x x
2ab
.
ab

1.2 Convergence of Sequences and series:

1) Test the convergence of following sequences:

1. an  2n (dgt)
2. an  3   1
n
(dgt)

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
3. an  n   1 
n 1
(cgt)
2
 n 
4. an    (cgt)
 n 1 
 1
n

5. an  1 (cgt)
n
2) Test the convergence of following series:

Using geometric test:

1 1 1 1
1. 1   2  3  4  . (cgt)
3 3 3 3

23 n
2.  2 n (cgt)
n0 3

Using ratio test:


n2
1. 
n 1 3
n
(cgt)

2! 3! 4!
2. 1  2  3  4  . (cgt)
2 3 4

n!
3.  n (dgt)
n 1 2

( )!
4. ∑ ( !)
(cgt)

!
5. ∑ (cgt)

Using Root test



  log n 
2 n
1. (cgt)
n 1

2n

 3n  1 
2.   
n 1  4  2 n 
(dgt)

𝟒 𝒏
3. ∑𝒏 𝟏 𝟓 (cgt)

𝒏 𝟐 𝒏
4. ∑𝒏 𝟏 𝟑𝒏 𝟏 (cgt)

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1.3 Taylor’s Series and Maclaurin’s series

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1. Expand log  cos x  about up to 3 non-zero terms.
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1  x  2  x  2  x  2
2 3
1
2. Prove that      ... .
1 x 3 32 33 34
3. Expand x 5  3 x 4  2 x 3  5 x 2  x  9 in powers of  x  2  .

4. Expand x 5  2 x 4  5 x 3  5 x 2  x  11 in powers of  x  1 .

x2 x4
5. Show that cos x  1    .... .
2! 4!
x2
6. Prove that a x  1  x log a  log a 2     .
2!
1
7. Show that  1  x  x 2  x 3  ... .
1 x
1
8. Show that  1  x  x 2  x 3  ... .
1 x
9. Find the Maclaurin series of f ( x )  x 2 cos x up to three non-zero terms.
x2
10. Using Maclaurin’s Series, prove that esin x  1  x   ....
2
11. Find the Maclaurin series of f ( x)  ( x 2  1)e x up to three non-zero terms.

3
 1 2x
12. Using Maclaurin’s Series, prove that log sec   x   log 2  x  x 2   ....
4  2 3
13. An AI image recognition system uses the activation function f  x   ln 1  x  . For a
normalized pixel feature at x  0.1 , estimate the activation value using the Maclaurin
series up to the fourth-order term.
14. The temperature variation in a thin plate is T  e  x , where x is the distance (m).

Estimate the temperature at x  0.2 using Maclaurin expansion up to the fourth-order term.

1.4 Indeterminate Forms and L'Hospital's rule:

1  cos x 2
1. Evaluate lim Ans:
x 1 x 3  3x  2 6
x 2  2 cos x  2
2. Evaluate lim Ans: 0
x 0 x sin x

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3. Evaluate lim

log 1  x 2  Ans: 2
x 0 log  cos x 

2x 1
4. Evaluate lim 1
. Ans. 2 log 2 .
x 0
1  x  2 1

log sin 2 x
5. Evaluate lim . Ans: 1.
x 0 log sin x

1 1  1
6. lim   x  . Ans:
x 0 x
 e  1 2

7. Evaluate lim  cot x 

sin x
. Ans: 1
x0

2 sin x
1
8. Evaluate lim  Ans: 1
x 0 x
 
1
9. Evaluate lim  x  x Ans: 1
x0

10. Evaluate lim  x 

x
Ans:1
x 0

1 
11. Evaluate: lim   Sin x  Ans:0
x 0 x
 
12. Evaluate lim [Link] x Ans: 0
x0

13. Evaluate lim x log x Ans:0

x0

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