Review for Midterm 2

MATH 223

Date
Material
Number of questions
Value of test

Fall 2014

Thursday, November 13 (full 75 minutes)

13.4-13.5, 14.1-14.8 (Early Trans. Book)
8 to 12 (some may have several parts)
20% of your final grade

General Information:
F ORMULA SHEET I have distributed an 8.5 x 11 colored piece of paper in
class that you may use as a formula sheet during the exam. You must use that
piece of paper, and you must follow the directions that are written on it.

Basic scientific calculators and graphing calculators such as the TI-84 are permitted.
You will not be allowed to share a calculator with anyone else or use a cell phone or any
other electronic device. Calculators with symbolic manipulation capability, such as the
TI-89, TI-92, and TI-Nspire are not permitted.
Storing notes and/or formulas in your graphing calculator is not permitted. Doing so
will be viewed as a violation of the Universitys policy on academic integrity.
You must contact me in advance (unless it is absolutely impossible to do so) if you are
forced to miss the exam. Missing an exam without advanced notification and approval
could result in a serious penalty, up to and including a grade of zero for the exam.
Make-up exams will not be given in general; instead, your final exam score will replace
the missed exam score.
Unless
specifically stated otherwise, your answers should be given in exact form (e.g.,

3
, not .866).
2
Be prepared to show your work. Please remember that I cannot read your mind.
I recommended working on the problems below in preparation for the exam. You
should also be able to do all of the assigned homework problems and quiz problems,
and you should go over the examples done in class. I do NOT guarantee that every
problem on the test will be like one of the problems on this sheet.
I will reserve the last 30 minutes of class on Tuesday, November 11 for answering questions that you have on these review problems (and any other questions in preparation
for the exam).

1. Let ~r(t) = h1 + 2t, t2 , 3 t2 i.

(a) Compute the unit tangent vector T~ (t).
(b) Compute the curvature function (t).
(c) Compute (1).
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2. Find the curvature of the plane curve y = cos x at x = 0.

3. What is the curvature of a circle of radius 9?
4. Find ~a(t) for a particle moving around a circle of radius 6 cm at a constant speed of v = 3
cm/s.

5. Find ~v (t) given ~a(t) = het , 0, t + 1i and ~v (0) = h1, 3, 2i.

6. A projectile fired at an angle of 60 lands 400 m away. What was its initial speed? Round
your answer to three decimal places.
7. Let ~r(t) = hcos t, sin 2ti. Decompose the acceleration vector ~a at t =
and normal components.

into its tangential

8. At time t0 , a moving particle has velocity vector ~v = h2, 0, 0i and acceleration vector
~a = h3, 0, 18i.
(a) Is the particle speeding up or slowing down at time t0 ?
(b) Determine the curvature (t0 ) of the particles path at time t0 .
p
x2 y 2
9. What is the domain of f (x, y) =
?
x+3
10. Describe the vertical and horizontal traces for f (x, y) = x2 y + 1.
11. Describe the level curves for each function.
(a) f (x, y) = e4xy
(b) f (x, y) = ln(4x y)
12. Draw a contour map for f (x, y) = 3x2 + y 2 .
13. Compute the limit or show that it does not exist.
xy + xy 2
(x,y)(0,0) x2 + y 2
(ex 1)(ey 1)
(b)
lim
(x,y)(0,2)
x
(a)

lim

14. Calculate fx and fy at the point (1, 3) for f (x, y) =

p
7x + y 2 .

15. Compute fx and fy for f (x, y) = ln(x2 + xy 2 ).

16. Compute all first-order partial derivatives for w =
17. Compute gxy (3, 2) for g(x, y) = xexy .
18. Compute fxxyz for f (x, y, z) = y sin(x + z).

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19. Show that u(x, t) = sin(nx)en t satisfies the heat equation for any constant n:
2u
u
=
.
t
x2
20. Find an equation for the tangent plane to g(x, y) = ex/y at the point (2, 1).
p
21. Use a linear approximation to estimate 9.1/3.9 to four decimal places.
22. The plane z = 2x y 1 is tangent to the graph of z = f (x, y) at the point (5, 3).
(a) Determine f (5, 3), fx (5, 3), and fy (5, 3).
(b) Approximate f (5.2, 2.9).
23. Compute

d
f (c(t))
dt

for f (x, y) = cos(y x) and c(t) = (et , e2t ) at t = ln 3.

24. Compute the derivative of g(x, y, z) = z 2 xy 2 in the direction of ~v = h1, 2, 2i at the

point (2, 1, 3).
25. Find the unit vector at the point (0, 0, 1) that points in the direction along which f (x, y, z) =
2
xz + ex +y increases most rapidly. What is the maximum rate of change?
26. Find an equation of the tangent plane at (0, 3, 1) to the surface with equation
zex + ez+1 = xy + y 3.
27. Let f (x, y) = (x y)ex , where x = u v and y = u + v. Compute
terms of u and v.

f
u

and

28. Consider spherical coordinates (, , ) and a function f (x, y, z). Express

f
, f
, and f
.
x
y
z
29. Use implicit differentiation to find

z
x

f
,
v

written in

in terms of

for xyz 4y 2 z 2 + sin(xy) = 0.

30. Find the critical points and use the Second Derivative to Classify each critical point (if
possible).
(a) f (x, y) = x4 + 2y 2 4xy
(b) f (x, y) = ex xey
(c) f (x, y) = (x + 2y)exy
31. Find the global extreme values of the function on the given domain.
(a) f (x, y) = x3 + y 3 3xy on 0 x 1, 0 y 1
(b) f (x, y) = 2xy x y on y 4, y x2
I wont give you any additional problems for Section 14.8 (Lagrange Multipliers). Just focus
on the homework problems from that section.

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