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Taylor Series and Limits Tutorial

The document contains tutorial exercises related to Taylor and Maclaurin series, including finding series expansions for various functions and proving their properties. It also involves evaluating limits using series and expanding functions using the binomial series. Additionally, there are problems related to Fibonacci numbers and their series representations.

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Taylor Series and Limits Tutorial

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MH1101 Tutorial 12 (Week 13)

Reference: Chapter 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 (Lecture Notes)

1. Find the Taylor series for f (x) centred at the given value of a. Assume
that f has a power series expansion. (Do not show that Rn (x) → 0). Also
find the associated radius of convergence.

(a) f (x) = ln x, a = 2

(b) f (x) = e2x , a = 3

(c) f (x) = cos x, a = π/2


√
(d) f (x) = x, a = 16
1
(e) f (x) = , a = 2.
7x − 13

2. Prove that the series obtained in Q1(c) represents cos x for all x.

3. Find the first three nonzero terms in the Maclaurin series for the function.

(a) f (x) = sec x

(b) f (x) = ex ln(1 + x).

4. Use series to evaluate the limit.

2x − ln(1 + 2x)
(a) lim
x→0 x2
√
1 + x − 1 − 12 x
(b) lim
x→0 x2

1
5. Use the binomial series to expand the function as a power series. State
the radius of convergence.
√
3
f (x) = 8 + x.

6. Find the sum of the series.


∞
X (−1)n π 2n+1
(a)
n=0
42n+1 (2n + 1)!

1 1 1 1
(b) − 3
+ 5
− + ···
1·2 3·2 5·2 7 · 27

7. Show that if p is an n-th degree polynomial, then

n
X p(i) (x)
p(x + 1) = .
i=0
i!

8.

(a) Show that the Maclaurin series of the function


∞
x X
f (x) = is f n xn
1 − x − x2 n=1

where fn is the nth Fibonacci number, that is, f1 = 1, f2 = 1, and

fn = fn−1 + fn−2 for all n ≥ 3.

(b) By writing f (x) as a sum of partial fraction and thereby obtaining the
Maclaurin series in a different way, find an explicit formula for the nth
Fibonacci number.

2
Answer Keys. 1. (a) ln 2 + ∞ n+1 1
(x − 2)n , R = 2 (b)
P
n=1 (−1) n2n
P∞ 2n e6 (−1)n+1 π 2n+1
(c) ∞
n
P 
n=0 n! (x − 3) , R = ∞ n=0 (2n+1)! x − 2 , R = ∞ (d)
4+ 81 (x−16)+ ∞ n−1 1·3·5···(2n−3)
(x−16)n , R = 16 (e) ∞ n n
P P
n=2 (−1) 25n−2 n! n=0 7 (x−2) ,
1
R = 7.
2 3
5 4
3. (a) sec x = 1 + 21 x + 24 x + · · · . (b) ex ln(1 + x) = x + x2 + x3 + · · · 4.
(a) 2 (b) − 18 6. (a) √12 (b) tan−1 12
 n  n 
1 2√ 2√
8. (b) fn = 5 · − 1− 5 − − 1+ 5
√

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