Precalculus
Precalculus
PUBLISHED BY PUBLISHER
First printing, June 2016
P r e f a c e
Students of the colleges of the natural sciences and engineering are required to take
calculus courses during their first year before they begin their majors. The contents of
calculus courses are composed on the assumption that freshmen possess a moderate
understanding of high school mathematics. A small number of students, however, seem to
have an incomplete knowledge of high school mathematics. These students may
encounter serious difficulties in following calculus courses. As a result, they could
experience a stressful introduction to university. To help these students, universities offer
an extra review course of high school mathematics. This book, titled “Precalculus”, is
designed for this review course, and is written so concisely that three hours of lecture per
week in one semester can cover the materials completely.
The first chapter is titled “Function”. In this chapter the basic concept of the function,
from which many other mathematical concepts are defined, is explained. Without
understanding functions, we cannot fully grasp the intricacies of mathematics well. The
second chapter is devoted for Trigonometric Functions. They are periodic functions
which are widely used in studying periodic phenomena in nature. In this section various
formulas for trigonometric functions are given and some basic applications are also
discussed. Vectors are introduced in the third chapter. Vectors are used to describe the
magnitude and direction of an object simultaneously. They are frequently used in
studying physical quantities such as forces, velocities and accelerations. Complex
numbers and matrices are introduced in the forth chapter. Complex numbers are the
largest number system containing real numbers and matrices are rectangular arrays of real
or complex numbers. In this chapter algebraic operations such as addition, subtraction
and multiplication for complex numbers and matrices are defined and their basic
properties are explained.
Chapter 5 and 6 form the core of this book, in which differentiation and integration are
introduced for polynomial functions, trigonometric functions and simple types of rational
and irrational functions. In these two chapters basic methods of calculating the
differentiation and integration for various functions are explained and some applications
are discussed. The basic relation between these two concepts, called the Fundamental
Theorem of Calculus, is also examined. All material in this book will be discussed further
in the university calculus courses at a deeper level.
This book is in fact an updated version of the book written by J. Kim, K. Kim and Y.
Lee in Korean, which was published in Cheong Moon Gak Publishing Company under
the title of Elementary Mathematics in 2012. In this revised and translated edition, the
authors added a chapter for complex numbers and matrices, and improved some parts in
contents and exercises.
Finally, the authors would like to thank Scott Schafer and Cheongil Namgung for
checking the manuscript carefully. It is the authors’ intention that students utilize this
book to build strong self-confidence in mathematics and eventually this book becomes
great help to study their majors.
C o n t e n t s
CHAPTER 1 Function
1.1 Definition of a Function 11
Polynomial Functions, Rational Functions and Irrational Functions 13
Graphs of Functions 14
CHAPTER 5 Differentiation
5.1 Limits 123
5.2 Limits of Indeterminate Forms 128
5.3 Continuity 132
5.4 Derivatives 137
5.5 Methods of Differentiation 143
Differentiation of a Composite Function 143
Differentiation of an Implicit Function 145
Differentiation of an Inverse Function 147
Differentiation of Parametric Equations 147
5.6 Derivatives of Transcendental Functions 149
Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions 149
Derivatives of the Exponential and Logarithmic Functions 151
CHAPTER 6 Integration
6.1 Indefinite Integrals 167
6.2 Definite Integrals 172
6.3 Substitution Rule 177
6.4 Integration by Parts 181
6.5 Integrations of Rational Functions and Irrational Functions 184
Integration of Rational Functions 184
Integration of Irrational Functions 187
Dirichlet (1805∼1859). When a real number is determined by a real number under a certain
rule, he called this relation a function. This concept developed to be more precise by German
In this section we define functions and study some basic notations and terminologies.
Definition 1.1.1-Function
For nonempty sets and , a function from to is a relation that each element of
corresponds to an element of . In this case, is called a domain and is called
a codomain.
A function from a set to a set is usually written by → or . When
an element of corresponds to an element of , is called the image or the value of
under the function and is denoted by
or ↦
In this case, is called an independent variable and is called a dependent variable. The
set of all values of is called the range of and is denoted by , i.e.,
∈ ∈
∈ ∈
∈ ∈
Example 1.1.1 For two sets and , find the ranges
Example 1.1.2 Suppose that the domain of is the set of all real numbers and is defined
We introduce a constant function and the identity function, which are simple but
important.
Next, we introduce some notations for subsets of the set of all real numbers. First of all,
we denote by the set of all real numbers, by the set of all rational numbers, by the
set of all integers and by the set of all natural numbers. Various types of intervals are
defined as follows.
We call and a closed interval and an open interval, respectively. We denote
the coordinate plane by , i.e., ∈ .
Remark In this book functions are usually defined between subsets of the real numbers . If there
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is no specific statement, the codomain of a function is always and the domain of is
the set of all real number such that is meaningful. From now on, we are not going
to define domain and codomain precisely. We just give a corresponding rule like
.
Example 1.1.3 Find the domains and ranges of the following functions.
(1) (2) (3)
Solution If we solve
, we have ± . Hence . Since
there is no real number satisfying , .
Two functions and are said to be the same functions if they have the same domain
and for all ∈ . In this case, we write . For example, if and
Example 1.1.5 For two functions and , determine whether
they are the same functions or not.
Solution We note that the domain of is and the domain of is . Even
though and have the same values for ∈ , they are different functions
since they have different domains.
Graphs of Functions
and this set is a parabola in 2 as is quite well known. To express a graph of a function on
2 is said to sketch a graph on 2.
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Example 1.1.6 Sketch the graphs of the following functions.
(1)
(2) (3)
Solution
In the graph of (2) in Example 1.1.6, the graph of goes to ± ∞ as approaches 0,
and it goes to as approaches ± ∞ . In this case, the -axis is called the vertical
asymptote of , and the -axis is called the horizontal asymptote of .
Example 1.1.7 For the graph of a function given below in [Figure 1.4], sketch the
graph of the function .
[Figure 1.4]
Hence, for ≥ the graph of is the same as the graph of and for
the graph of is the reflection of the graph of for with
respect to the -axis ([Figure 1.5]).
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[Figure 1.5]
Example 1.1.8 Sketch the graphs of the following functions and find their domains and
horizontal and vertical asymptotes.
(1) (2) (3)
Solution (1) The graph of is obtained by shifting the graph of by 1 along the
-axis and 2 along the -axis ([Figure 1.6]). The domain is ∞∪ ∞ and 1
is the vertical asymptote and 2 is the horizontal asymptote.
(2) Since , the graph of is obtained by shifting the graph of
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by along the -axis ([Figure 1.7]). The domain is ∞ ∪ ∞ and
1 is the vertical asymptote and the -axis is the horizontal asymptote.
(3) The graph of is obtained by shifting the graph of
by 4 along the -axis
([Figure 1.8]). The domain is ∞ . There is no vertical nor horizontal asymptote.
We have introduced graphs of functions. On the other hand, some equations, like
, are not functions but we can sketch the trajectories on 2. These are called
graphs of equations. The graph of an equation is the set
∈ .
Example 1.1.9 Sketch the graph of the equation .
Solution Note that the graph of this equation passes through the origin (0, 0). Since
for , there is no ( , ) satisfying this equation for , which shows that
the graph of this equation appears only in the 1st and 4th quadrants. If ( , ) with
satisfies the equation, then ( , ) also satisfies the equation and hence the graph of the
equation is symmetric with respect to the -axis. We sketch the graph of the equation in
the 1st quadrant and then reflect this graph with respect to the -axis. Then we can obtain
the graph of this equation ([Figure 1.9]).
[Figure 1.9]
∈
∉
8. Suppose that the graph of passes through two points (1, 2) and
(-1, 1). Find and .
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9. If the graph of is obtained by shifting the graph of
by along the -axis and along the -axis, find and .
11. Sketch the graph of the equation .
In this section we introduce basic operations of functions and investigate some properties.
Let and be functions with domains and , respectively, where and are subsets
of . We define the addition, substraction, product and quotient of and as follows.
Besides these operations, we can obtain a new function by composing two functions.
More precisely, if we are given two functions → and → , we can obtain a
new function from to by assigning to each ∈ .
Example 1.2.2 For two functions and , find ∘ and ∘ .
Example 1.2.3 For , find , where ∘ ∘⋯∘ .
Solution
Since ∘
, we have ∘ .
Let → be a function
(1) If ≠ for all ∈ with ≠ , is called an injective function
or simply an injection. Equivalently, if implies , then is
an injective function.
(2) If , is called a surjective function or simply a surjection. In other
words, if is a surjective function, then for any ∈ there exists ∈ such that
.
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Remark If is an injective function, then for any ∈ , is either an empty set or has only
one element. If is a surjective function, then for any ∈ , is a non-empty set.
Solution Since is a bijection and , we have and 5, which yields
1 and 5. Hence, 4 and 1.
Remark The following concepts are quite well known in basic set theory. Let and be two
non-empty sets.
(1) If there exists an injective function → , then the number of elements of is
less than or equal to that of elements of . The reason is that for each ∈ ,
is either an empty set or a set consisting of one element.
(2) If there exists a surjective function → , then the number of elements of is
bigger than or equal to that of elements of . The reason is that for each ∈ ,
is a non-empty set.
(3) If there exists a bijective function → , then the number of elements of is
equal to that of elements of . It is true even though and are infinite sets. For
example, if is the set of all natural numbers and is the set of all integers,
there exists a bijection → defined by
→
Hence, we can say that the number of elements of is equal to the number of
elements of .
Remark It is easy to show that both a strictly increasing function and a strictly decreasing function
are injective functions.
Theorem 1.2.6
Proof If → is a bijective function, for any ∈ there exists only one ∈ such
that , which enables us to define a new function → with the domain and
the range by . Then this function is just the inverse of . Conversely, we suppose
that the inverse function → of → exists. Then we have
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and . If ≠ , then ≠ . This shows
that ≠ and hence is an injective function. Since for any
∈ and ∈ , we have and hence is a surjective function. Since is
both an injection and a surjection, is a bijection.
The following shows a relation between an invertible function and its inverse function
:
⇔
[Figure 1.10]
For a bijective function , we can find the inverse function in the
following way. First of all, we exchange and to get . And then, we express
this function in the form , which is the inverse function of , i.e.,
. The domain of is equal to the range of and the range of is
equal to the domain of .
Remark When a function → has an inverse function → with , the value
of the function at is ∈ and the inverse image of under the function
is ⊂ . In other words, the value of the function at is an element of and the
inverse image of under the function is a subset of . Hence, whenever we encounter
a symbol in a sentence, we should be able to distinguish whether means
the value of at or the inverse image of under the function .
Solution From
we obtain . If we exchange and , we have
, which is equal to . Hence, . Since the
lies on the graph of . Conversely, for any point on the graph of
, lies on the graph of . This fact shows that the graphs of
and are symmetric with respect to the line . [Figure 1.11]
below explains this phenomenon.
[Figure 1.11]
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where is an even function and is an odd function.
Hence if a domain is symmetric, then every function can be expressed as a sum of an even
function and an odd function.
Example 1.2.7 Show that is an odd function.
Solution Note that the domain of is the symmetric set . Since
, is an odd function.
Exercise 1.2
1. For and
, find the composite function ∘
and its domain.
Find .
5. For
, compute ∘ ∘ ∘ .
9. When the graph of is given in [Figure 1.12], sketch the graphs of the
following functions.
(1) (2) (3)
[Figure 1.12]
10. For
, sketch the graph of .
12. Suppose that is an even function and is an odd function. Determine whether
the following functions are even or odd.
⋅ ∘
Justify your answers.
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1.3 Exponential Functions and Logarithmic Functions
Exponential Functions
Remark In the above statements, (1), (2) and (3) can be defined even though is a negative real
number. For example, . In (4), if is odd,
it is meaningful even though is a negative real number. For example, .
Using the above statements (1)∼(5), we can define the exponential function
→ . Now we need to extend the domain of from to . There are two ways
to define for any real number ∈ . One of them is to use integration, which will be
discussed in the university calculus course and is omitted here. The other is to use the
For two positive real numbers and two real numbers , the following equalities
hold.
(1) ⋅ (2)
(3)
(4) ⋅
Solution (1) (2) (3)
()
(2)
×
(1) ×
(1) ×( )
Solution
( )
(2) ×
Let us sketch the graph of . First of all, it is obvious that for any ∈ .
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As increases, increases. As decreases, decreases and eventually converges to 0
(see the table). The graph of is as in [Figure 1.13].
⋯ ⋯
⋯ ⋯
[Figure 1.13]
[Figure 1.14]
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As in the case of , the general exponential function is a
strictly decreasing function and hence is an injective function. Similarly, is a
bijective function from to ∞ as in the case of .
Example 1.3.3 Sketch the graph of .
Solution If we shift the graph of by -1 along the -axis, then we obtain the graph
of . And then, if we reflect the graph of about the -axis, we obtain the
graph of .
[Figure 1.15]
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Solution (1) Putting , the given equation is reduced to
. Since , we have and hence .
(2) The given inequality can be written as ≤ . Since is a strictly
increasing function, we have ≤ , which yields ≥ and hence
≥ .
Example 1.3.5 Find the maximum and minimum values of ․ on .
Logarithmic Functions
Since the exponential function (0 < < 1 or > 1) is a bijective function from
to ∞ , has an inverse function ∞ → . This inverse function is
called the logarithmic function and is denoted by , where is called the
base as in the case of the exponential function.
⇔ ≠
Example 1.3.6 Find the domains of the following functions. Give your answers in the form
of intervals.
(1) (2)
Generally, for an invertible function and its inverse function , it is true that
and , which yields the following equalities for 0 < < 1
or > 1.
(1) (2)
Since the graph of and the graph of are symmetric with respect to the
line , the graph of is as in [Figure 1.16] and [Figure 1.17].
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Theorem 1.3.4-Graph of Logarithmic Function
Solution We begin with the graph of . Note that the graph of is
symmetric with respect to the -axis ([Figure 1.18]). If we reflect this graph with respect
to the -axis, we get the graph of ([Figure 1.19]). If we shift this graph by
1 along the -axis and 1 along the -axis, we get the graph of ,
which is given in [Figure 1.20]).
Solution (1) Since the base is less than 1, we get , which yields
. Since and , we get . Hence the common part is
.
(2) Since , we get
Since is an injection, we get . If we solve this equality, we
get .
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Theorem 1.3.6-Change of Base Formula
Solution Since , and are bigger than 1, all of , and are positive real
numbers. If we use the relation between the arithmetic mean and geometric mean, we get
≥
Note that if , we get . Hence the minimum value is .
The logarithmic function whose base is 10 is called the common logarithm and is
denoted simply by rather than .
Solution Since ≤ , we have ≤ . Thus ≤ ,
and ≤ . Hence, is a -digit integer.
Exercise 1.3
1. When , find a positive integer satisfying
.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(2)
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8. Solve the following inequalities.
(1) ≤
(2) ≤
(3) ≥ (4) ≥
(1)
(2)
11. Find the range of such that the equation has two
distinct real roots.
Trigonometric ratios were developed from the study of triangles which dated back to ancient
times due to daily life’s necessities such as surveying land. Indeed, Hipparchus, a Greek
astronomer around the 1st century BC, made a table for lengths of arcs subtending central
angles to survey land. Later those trigonometric ratios were generalized to become
trigonometric functions to solve many scientific problems including vibration of chords and heat
conduction by using the periodic properties of trigonometric functions. Nowadays, the theory
of trigonometric functions plays central roles, not only in science and engineering, but also in
economic situations such as various financing problems like fluctuations in stock markets.
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On a plane we denote the origin by and draw a half line called the initial side.
For a point on the plane, we rotate the initial side about the origin until reaches
the half line , called the terminal side. We call the amount of rotation from to
the rotational angle or simply the angle between and and denote it by ∠
([Figure 2.1]). If is rotated in the counterclockwise direction, the angle is defined to
be positive and if is rotated in the clockwise direction, the angle is defined to be
negative. We use the degree or the radian for the unit of measurement for angles.
[Figure 2.1]
Definition 2.1.1-Degree
The measure of the angle obtained by one complete revolution in the counterclockwise
direction from the initial side is defined to be 360 degree and is written by 360°.
The angle of measure 1 degree, written by 1°, is of the above angle.
On the other hand, in a circle the length of an arc is proportional to the size of a central
angle. This property gives another way of expressing an angle. More precisely, the
method of representing the size of an angle by using the length of an arc is explained in
Definition 2.1.2 below, which is called the radian measure. In many computations the
radian measure is more convenient to use than the degree measure, and hence in this book
the radian measure is used in most cases.
We note that the measure of the angle obtained by one complete revolution in the
counterclockwise direction from the initial side is 360° in degree measure and 2 rad
in radian measure, which shows that 360° is equal to 2 rad. This leads to the following
result.
°
°
[Table 2.1]
° 30° 45° 60° 90° 120° 150° 180° 210° 240° 270° 360°
Proof We note that the length of an arc is proportional to the measure of a central angle
and the proportional expression is , which yields . Since the area of the
×
Example 2.1.2 For a circular sector with a central angle lying on a circle of radius 2,
compute the length of the arc and the area of the circular sector.
Solution ×
× ×
On a right triangle with ∠ , the following six
ratios do not depend on the magnitude of a right triangle
but depend only on the angle ∠ . These ratios are
called the sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant and
cotangent of ∠ and altogether these six ratios are called
[Figure 2.3]
the trigonometric ratios. The definition is given as follows.
, ,
, ,
Example 2.1.3-Trigonometric Ratios for , ,
away from a building. When he looks at the top of the building, the angle is as shown in
[Figure 2.4]. Estimate the height of the building.
Solution Let us denote by the height of the building and put − 1.6
[Figure 2.4]
Since , ⋅ . Hence, the height of the building is
≈
Exercise 2.1
3. Consider a circular sector whose radius is 5 and central angle is .
(1) Compute the length of the arc.
(2) Compute the area of the sector.
5. In a circular sector whose radius is 2 and central angle is 45°, compute the area
of the region between the arc and the chord.
6. Consider a right triangle with one angle . If the length of the hypotenuse is
10, use trigonometric ratios to compute the lengths of the other two edges.
8. Find the lengths of all diagonals of the cube whose edge is of length 1.
9. When a person on a ship observed the top of a mountain, the angle between the
surface of the sea and the top of the mountain was . When he observed the top
of the mountain after he moved 1 toward the mountain, the angle was .
Estimate the height of the mountain. (Here we ignore the heights of the person
and the ship.)
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Definition 2.2.1-General Angles
[Figure 2.5]
As shown in [Figure 2.6], we consider in the coordinate plane. This point is
obtained by rotating a point on the -axis about the origin by an
angle . The following values of six ratios do not depend on the length of the line
segment
but depend only on the angle and hence they can be regarded as functions
of , which are called sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant and cotangent of . These
are called trigonometric functions. When is an acute angle, i.e., , the
trigonometric functions are equal to the trigonometric ratios.
Proof Note that , which gives the first equality. The other
equalities can be checked similarly, which we omit.
Proof Since and have the same terminal sides, the statements (1) and (2) hold.
If is the point determined by the angle , then ′ is the point
determined by the angle . Then, Definition 2.2.2 shows that
.
Solution
(1)
The following results are very basic relations which are used frequently.
The identities (2) and (3) are obtained by dividing the equation (1) by or .
Remark As we see in the above proof, the identity is equivalent to the
Pythagorean Theorem.
Example 2.2.2 When , evaluate and .
Solution From , . Since
, we have . Finally,
Next, we discuss the signs of the values of trigonometric functions. Since the radius
is always positive, the signs of the values of trigonometric functions are determined by the
signs of and of the point . More precisely, since , the sign of
is equal to the sign of . Similarly, since , the sign of is equal to the sign
of . The table below shows the signs of the values of trigonometric functions for angles
belonging to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th quadrants, respectively.
The sine and tangent functions are odd functions, and the cosine function is an even
function, i.e.,
(1) (2) (3)
Proof We denote by and ′ ′ ′ the intersection points of the unit circle
and the terminal sides representing the angles and , respectively. Then
and ′ are symmetric about the -axis. So we have ′ and ′ . Hence,
′
′
′
′
Example 2.2.4 Compute .
Solution Since the trigonometric functions are periodic and the sine function is odd, we
have
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Example 2.2.5 When , express in terms of .
Solution
[Figure 2.7]
The domain of is the set of all real numbers and the range is
≤ ≤ .
[Figure 2.9]
We place and on the -axis and -axis, respectively, and observe how
changes as changes. Then we can sketch the graph of as shown in [Figure
2.10] below.
[Figure 2.10]
If we shift the graph of cosine function by along the -axis, we get the graph of sine
function, i.e., . Since the cosine function is an even function, we also
get . Furthermore, . We
summarize these relations as follows.
(1)
(2)
As shown in [Figure 2.11], we denote by the intersection of the straight line
that extends the terminal side representing the angle and the tangent line to the unit
circle at . Then,
[Figure 2.11]
Placing and on the -axis and -axis, respectively, and observing the change of
according to the change of , we can sketch the graph of as in [Figure
[Figure 2.12]
The graphs of other trigonometric functions can be sketched by using the relations
, ,
[Figure 2.13]
[Figure 2.15]
In the graph of each trigonometric function, the same shapes appear repeatedly and
regularly, which is called the periodic property of a trigonometric function. The minimal
length of the interval that the same shape appears in is called the fundamental period of
the trigonometric function. We can easily see that any integer multiple of a fundamental
period also becomes a period. For example, the fundamental periods of sine and cosine
functions are and the fundamental period of tangent function is . Furthermore, ,
, , ⋯ are the periods of sine and cosine functions and , , , ⋯ are the periods
of tangent function. Due to their periodic properties, trigonometric functions have played
very important roles in describing various periodic phenomena in the natural sciences.
We note that the fundamental periods of and are , which is half of , the
fundamental periods of and . Similarly, the fundamental periods of
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and are , which is double the fundamental periods of and .
Generally, for , the fundamental periods of and are , and the
reciprocal of the fundamental period is call the frequency.
[Figure 2.16]
Example 2.2.6 Find the amplitudes, fundamental periods and frequencies of the following
functions.
(1) (2) (3)
Solution(1) Amplitude , fundamental period , frequency
(2) Amplitude , fundamental period , frequency
⇔
≤ ≤ ≤ ≤
[Figure 2.17]
Remark The notation “ ” means the inverse function of , which is different from
.
(1) For ≤ ≤ ,
(2) For ≤ ≤ ,
The inverse cosine function (or the arccosine function) is defined in a similar way.
[Figure 2.18]
-1
Theorem 2.2.12-Relation between cos and cos
Finally, we study the inverse function of tangent function. The tangent function
is a strictly increasing function in and the range for this interval is
the set of all real numbers. The inverse tangent function or the arctangent function is
defined as follows.
∞ ∞
[Figure 2.19]
-1
Theorem 2.2.14-Relation between tan and tan
(1)
(2)
(3)
Solution (1) Note that and the angle satisfying in
is , which leads to .
(2) By Theorem 2.2.12, .
(3) If we denote by the angle such that in , then
belongs to the 1st quadrant, i.e., , which yields . Hence,
.
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Exercise 2.2
(4)
(5)
(6)
2. When and , evaluate .
3. For the following trigonometric functions, find the domains, ranges, fundamental
periods and symmetric properties (even or odd functions).
(1) (2) (3)
4. For the following trigonometric functions, find the amplitudes and fundamental
periods, and sketch the graphs.
(1)
(2)
5. Prove statements (2) and (3) in Theorem 2.2.5.
7. Show that the terminal sides representing the angles and are symmetric
with respect to and use this fact to prove Theorem 2.2.7.
9.
Suppose that a function satisfies for ∈ . Show
that .
(4)
(5) (6)
11. Determine the domains and ranges such that , and
have their inverse functions. Find the following values.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
In this section we discuss various formulas for trigonometric functions. We begin with
the addition and subtraction formulas.
± ±
± ∓
±
±
∓
Squaring both sides of the above equality and using the fact
,
we have
Hence
[Figure 2.20]
The other formulas can be proven by using properties given in Section 2.2 as follows.
Example 2.3.2 Evaluate and .
Solution
Theorem 2.3.3-Trigonometric Functions with ±
Example 2.3.3 When , express in terms of .
Hence
(1)
(2)
(3)
Example 2.3.4 When , evaluate .
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Proof Since , we have . Since
, we have . Replacing by , we obtain the first two
equalities. These two identities yield
Example 2.3.5 When , evaluate .
Solution From , we have . Solving this
equality, we get . Hence .
(1)
,
(2)
,
Since
and
as shown in [Figure 2.21], we have
[Figure 2.21]
Hence the maximum value is 2 and the minimum value is -2.
The following identities are the formulas for the products of trigonometric functions,
which play important roles in integration.
Similarly, we can check the other two formulas by using and .
Example 2.3.7 Evaluate .
We next give some examples of trigonometric equations whose unknowns are angles.
Solution Since or , the solution is or .
If we solve this equation, we get . If , then .
If , then . Hence or .
Example 2.3.10 Solve the equation , ( ≤ ).
Exercise 2.3
2.
Simplify .
5. When , evaluate .
11. When and , evaluate .
14. Consider a circle of radius 1 such that the line segment is a diameter
([Figure 2.22]). Let be a point on this circle. We draw a perpendicular line
from to and denote the intersection by . Find the maximum value of
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and the length of the line segment
when
attains the maximum value.
[Figure 2.22]
15. When for a triangle , find ∠ .
(3)
(4) ≤
(5) ≤ (6)
17. Find the maximum values and fundamental periods of the following
trigonometric functions.
(1)
(2)
(3)
18. Show that . Use this identity to evaluate the
following expressions.
(1)
(2)
A triangle is fully determined if one of the following three conditions is given: (1)
lengths of three edges, (2) lengths of two edges and an angle between them, (3) length of
one edge and two angles at its end points. Under these circumstances we can find the
lengths of the other edges and angles, which we call solving a triangle. In this section we
usually denote a triangle by . The three vertices of a triangle are denoted by ,
and and the angles at these points are denoted by ∠ , ∠ and ∠ , or simply by ,
and . The lengths of edges opposite to vertices , and are denoted by , and
. Once a triangle is determined, then we can find the area of this triangle and the radii of
the inscribed and circumscribed circles as well.
If a triangle has two edges of lengths , and an angle between them, then the area
is given by
Example 2.4.1 When a triangle has
,
and ∠ , compute
the area.
⋅⋅⋅
[Figure 2.23]
Proof We show the theorem only for . The same method can be applied to angles and
. Let be the center of the circumscribed circle.
(1) The case ∠ : We denote by the intersection of the edge and the line
perpendicular to
from , and consider the triangle . Then the length of
is half of the length of
. Since the angle at the center is twice the angle at the
circumference, we have ∠ ∠ ∠ .
Hence
∠ ,
[Figure 2.24]
(2) The case ∠ : Note that and .
Hence .
[Figure 2.25]
(3) The case ∠ : We denote by the intersection of the edge
and the line
perpendicular to
from , and consider the triangle . Since the angle at the
center is twice the angle at the circumference, we have ∠ ∠ . Hence
∠ ∠ ∠ ∠ ,
which shows that
∠
Therefore, .
[Figure 2.26]
Example 2.4.2 Suppose that ∠ ∠ and . Solve and find the
radius of the circumscribed circle.
Solution Since the sum of interior angles of a triangle is , ∠ . Using Theorem
2.4.2, we have
⋅
Since (Example 2.3.2 in Section 2.3), we have
, ⋅
Proof We show only the first identity. We draw a perpendicular line from the vertex to
the straight line
and denote the intersection by .
(1) The case ∠ and ∠
.
[Figure 2.27]
(2) The case ∠ : Since and ,
.
[Figure 2.28]
(3) The case ∠ : Since ,
(4) The case ∠ and ∠ ≥ : The proof is similar to (2) and (3).
Proof If we multiply the three identities of the first law of cosines by , and ,
respectively, we get
(2.3)
(2.4)
(2.5)
Hence
Example 2.4.3 When a triangle has edges of lengths 4, 5 and 7, compute the area.
Solution If we denote by the angle between the edges of lengths 4 and 5, the above
theorem tells that
⋅⋅
⋅⋅⋅
Let , and be the lengths of edges of a triangle. The area of this triangle is
given by
, where
Proof We denote by , and the angles opposite to edges of lengths , and . Using
Theorem 2.4.1 and 2.3.4,
Using Theorem 2.3.6 and the second law of cosine , we get the
following equality.
Similarly, we get
Solution Since , the area
⋅⋅⋅
.
Let , and be the lengths of three edges of a triangle of area . Then the radius
of the inscribed circle is given by
Proof As shown in [Figure 2.30], we denote the three vertices by , and and the
center of the inscribed circle by . We decompose the triangle by ,
and . Then
Hence
[Figure 2.30]
Example 2.4.5 Find the radius of the inscribed circle of the triangle given in Example 2.4.3.
⋅
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Exercise 2.4
[Figure 2.31]
2. Let be the radius of the circumscribed circle of a triangle . Show that
the area of is given by .
3. When a triangle has
and ∠ , find
.
[Figure 2.32]
7. When a triangle has three edges of lengths 3, 12 and 13, find the radii of the
inscribed and circumscribed circles.
To measure physical quantities like velocities or forces, we need to describe the magnitudes
and directions of objects together, which leads to the concept of vectors. Naturally, vectors
are very useful in describing various physical phenomena such as trajectories of moving
objects. This concept was first introduced in the 16th century to study the movements of
celestial bodies and was expanded to the modern concept by many mathematicians and
vectors and H. Grassmann defined the inner products and cross products of vectors.
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3.1 The Concept of Vectors and Basic Operations
Definition 3.1.1-Vector
Remark Strictly speaking, a directed line segment is a slightly different from a vector. Two
directed line segments are different if their initial points are different. However, two
vectors are defined to be the same only if their directions and lengths are the same,
wherever they start. To avoid this ambiguity, we are going to use only one terminology,
“vector”.
We define the addition and substraction of two vectors and the multiplication of a
vector by a constant as follows.
The above definition leads to the following result, whose proof is omitted.
Theorem 3.1.3
For a vector
and a real number , the following equalities hold.
(1)
(2)
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Statement (2) in the above theorem shows that for ≠ ,
Hence is a unit vector whose direction equals that of . The vector is called
the directional vector of .
Example 3.1.1 For points and in the coordinate plane, find the
directional vector of
.
Solution Since
, the directional vector of is
, where
Definition 3.1.4-Sum of Two Vectors
[Figure 3.3]
The sum of two vectors satisfies the law of parallelogram (or composition of two
vectors), which means that if we move the initial point of to and find a point ′ such
that
′
, then the quadrangle ′ is a parallelogram and the sum of two
vectors becomes the diagonal of this parallelogram.
Example 3.1.2 For three points , and on the coordinate plane,
consider two vectors
and . When , find the coordinate of .
′
′
′
′
′
′
′
[Figure 3.5]
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Example 3.1.3 For three points , and on the coordinate plane,
[Figure 3.6]
Solution
[Figure 3.7]
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Exercise 3.1
1. On the parallelogram given in [Figure 3.8] below, find the same
vectors.
[Figure 3.8]
2. When vectors , and are given as arrows below, draw the following vectors.
3. In the following regular hexagon given in [Figure 3.9], express the following
vectors in terms of and .
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
[Figure 3.9]
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5. For , and , find the coordinate of the point
such that
is the directional vector of
.
Plane Vectors
If we fix the initial point of a vector at the origin on the coordinate plane, a vector
is determined by the position or the coordinate of . Conversely, for any point on
the plane, we can consider a vector
. This means that the vector
is identified with
the point on the coordinated plane and is called the position vector of . If we
denote the coordinate of by , we usually denote the position vector by
, the same notation as the coordinate of . Here and are called the
-component and -component of , respectively.
Remark In some other books, the position vector is denoted by or rather than
to distinguish it from the coordinate of . But in this book we are going to use the
same symbol for both the coordinate and position vector of when there is no
ambiguity. In cases that ambiguity may occur, we will write a “point ” or a
“vector ” to distinguish a vector from a point more clearly.
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The position vector of the origin in the coordinate plane is the zero vector and is
denoted by (0, 0). The following result shows how to express the multiplication of a
vector by a constant, sum of two vectors and the length of a vector by using position
vectors.
Example 3.2.2 For two vectors and , find the following vectors.
(1) (2) (3) the directional vector of
Space Vectors
Using the same method, we extend position vectors in plane to those in space. If we are
given a point in a space, we consider the vector
whose initial point is the origin
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and terminal point is . In this case, we call the position vector of . If the
coordinate of is , we denote the position vector
by , the
same notation as the coordinate of . In this case, we call , and the -component,
-component and -component of , respectively. The position vector corresponding to
is the zero vector . The following result is the space version of Theorem 3.2.1.
For vectors and a real number ∈ , the following
equalities hold.
(1) (2)
(3)
Example 3.2.4 For vectors and , find the following vectors.
(1) (2)
(3) the directional vector of
Solution (1)
(2)
(3)
Example 3.2.5 For three vectors and , find and
such that .
In coordinate space, the unit vectors whose directions are the -axis, -axis and -axis are
denoted by , and and are called the standard unit vectors, as was the case for plane
vectors. The position vector
of the point is expressed by
.
Exercise 3.2
4. Suppose that a position vector of length 4 is located on the 1st quadrant and
the angle between and the positive -axis is . Find the - and -component
of the vector .
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3.3 The Inner Product and the Vector Product
In this section we study the products of vectors. There are two ways to define products
of two vectors: One is the inner product and the other is the vector product. The inner
product of two vectors results in a scalar which is a real number, and hence the inner
product is also called the scalar product. But the vector product of two vectors results in
a new vector. The vector product is available only for space vectors but the inner product
is defined for both plane vectors and space vectors.
For two vectors and , the inner product ⋅ is defined as follows.
(1) For plane vectors and ,
⋅
Example 3.3.1 For , and , find ⋅ and
⋅ .
The following properties of the inner product can be checked easily, whose proofs are
left as exercises.
If and are two nonzero vectors and is the angle between them, the inner product
of and satisfies
⋅
Proof We put
and
and prove the theorem when and are not
parallel. When two vectors are parallel, the proof is easier, and we leave this case to the
readers. Theorem 3.3.2 shows that
⋅
⋅
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[Figure 3.10]
Theorem 3.3.3 shows that the angle between two nonzero vectors and satisfies
⋅
. In particular, and are perpendicular if and only if ⋅ .
Example 3.3.2 Find the angle between the following two vectors.
(1) , (2) ,
Solution (1) Since ⋅ × × , and .
(2) Since ⋅ × × × and
× , we have
․
. Hence .
Example 3.3.3 Find the unit vector which is perpendicular to both and
⋅
⋅
±
∓ ±
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Next, we discuss the vector product.
For two space vectors and , the vector product ×
is defined by
×
To memorize the above definition more easily, we usually write × in the following
way. We define
,
which is the determinant of the matrix . Then, we write the vector product × by
×
Example 3.3.4 Compute the vector products of the following pairs of vectors.
(1)
(2)
Solution
(1) ×
The following theorem gives an important information for the direction of the vector
product of two vectors.
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Theorem 3.3.5-Direction of Vector Product
For two nonzero vectors and , the vector product × is perpendicular to both
and .
The above theorem shows that the direction of × is perpendicular to the plane
determined by and . We note that there are two directions which are perpendicular to
this plane. To determine which one is the right direction of × , we consider an easy
example × , which is by the previous example, i.e., × . As shown in [Figure
3.11], the direction of × is the direction where a right-handed screw proceeds when we
rotate to along the angle (of less than ) between and , which is the direction of .
Generally, the direction of × follows the law of a right-handed screw: The direction
of × is the direction where a right-handed screw proceeds when we rotate to along
the angle (of less than ) between and . Hence, the direction of × is opposite to the
direction of × . Since they have the same lengths (see Theorem 3.3.6 below), we have
× × .
[Figure 3.11]
Example 3.3.5 Find unit vectors which are perpendicular to the plane passing through
and .
×
× ,
×
×
Hence, the desired unit vector is or .
The following result gives a way of finding the length × of the vector product
× . Since this result can be checked by a simple computation, the proof is left as an
exercise.
× ⋅
× ⋅
For two nonzero vectors and , let be the angle between them ≤ ≤ . Then
the following equality holds.
×
The above theorem has the following geometric interpretation. As shown in [Figure
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3.12], let
and
in the parallelogram . Then in this parallelogram,
the length of the base is and the height is and hence the area is
×
[Figure 3.12]
This fact means that the length × is exactly the area of the parallelogram determined by
the vectors and . In particular, the area of the triangle is given by
×
×
Example 3.3.6 Find the area of the triangle whose vertices are ,
and .
Since
Solution and
, the vector product
×
is given by
×
Exercise 3.3
7. Find the vectors which are perpendicular to both and and have given
lengths.
(1) , , length
(2) , , length
8. Find the area of the triangle whose vertices are and
.
10. Let be the line passing through the points and in space. We choose a
point which is not on the line . Show that the distance from the point to
the line is given by
×
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CHAPTER 4
Complex Numbers
and Matrices
is written by ±
. Generally, when and are real numbers, a number of the type is
called a complex number and the set of all complex numbers is denoted by , i.e.,
∈. The set is closed under addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
(except for dividing by 0), and hence is a larger number system containing . In fact, it turns
out that is the largest number system. In this chapter we discuss the basic operations and
properties of complex numbers. On the other hand, a rectangular array of real or complex
numbers is called a matrix. The theory of matrices is closely related to solving systems of linear
equations, linear transformations and vectors and is applied to various parts of mathematics. In
the last section of this chapter we briefly discuss the basic properties of × real matrices
including addition, multiplication and determinant of matrices. Complex numbers and the
theory of matrices play very important roles not only in mathematics but also in physics,
engineering and many other related fields.
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We denote by the number whose square is , i.e., . For any real number
∈ , is the number whose square is . A number of the form
is called a pure imaginary number. For any real numbers ∈ , a number of the
form is called a complex number and the set of all complex numbers is denoted
by , i.e., ∈ .
In a complex number , and are called the real and imaginary parts of ,
respectively. A pure imaginary number is a complex number whose real part is zero and
a real number is a complex number whose imaginary part is zero. The number satisfies
the following properties, which can be seen easily from the definition of .
Theorem 4.1.2-Properties of
(1)
(2)
(4)
Here is called the conjugate complex number or simply the conjugate of and
is called the absolute value or the modulus of .
(1) (2)
(3) (4)
As shown in [Figure 4.1] below, we can express a complex number in the -plane in
such a way that a real number is located on the -axis and a pure imaginary number is
located on the -axis. This plane is called the complex plane. Then is expressed in
this plane like the position vector with ([Figure 4.1]). Hence, all complex
numbers can be expressed in the complex plane by arrows starting from the origin.
Moreover, if we express the sum on this complex
plane, we can see easily that the law of the parallelogram holds just like the sum of two
Example 4.1.2 Express the following complex numbers in the complex plane by arrows
starting from the origin.
(1) (2)
(3) (4)
Solution
[Figure 4.3]
Definition 4.1.4-Conjugate
It is easy to see from the above definition that the conjugate of a real number is
itself and the conjugate of is . Hence, a complex number satisfies
if and only
[Figure 4.4]
Proof We are going to prove (3) and leave (1) and (2) as exercises. We put
and . Then, by (5) in Definition 4.1.3, we have
, which shows that
,
From the above definition, it is easy to see that for any complex number ∈ the
absolute values of and are the same and the absolute value of is 0 if and only if
. If we express a complex number in the complex plane by an arrow, the
absolute value is the length of the arrow.
Solution
Let and be two complex numbers. Then we have the following properties.
(1) ≤ (2)
(3) For ≠
Example 4.1.5 Find the absolute values of the following complex numbers.
Exercise 4.1
(3)
(4)
5. Prove statements (1) and (2) in Theorem 4.1.5.
Since
, we can find an angle such that
and . Hence, we have the following result.
,
where
, and .
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When we draw on the complex plane by an arrow, is the angle from the positive
-axis to the arrow representing in the counterclockwise direction as shown in
[Figure 4.5]. This angle is called an argument of . We note that the argument is not
unique. If is an argument of , then for any integer ∈ , is also an
argument of since and are periodic functions with the period .
[Figure 4.5]
Solution Since
, we get
Since and , the argument is . Hence,
Example 4.2.2 Express in polar form.
Solution Since
and the angle between the positive -axis and
is , we get
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Example 4.2.3 Express
in polar form.
Solution Since
, we get
.
Since cos and sin , the argument is (or ). Hence
The following result is called De Moivre’s Theorem, which is very useful in solving
some equations.
which shows that the above equality holds for . This completes the proof.
Remark De Moivre’s Theorem holds for any negative integer, hence for every integer. The proof
is as follows. For a positive integer ∈ , consider
Thus
,
, , ⋯
Putting , the given equation is rewritten by
,
which gives
, ,
Hence, the solution is
,
Example 4.2.5 Solve the equation .
,
which gives
, ,
,
Since ≠ , satisfies
, ‒ ‒
⋯
Example 4.2.6 (1) When , compute .
(2) When , compute .
Solution (1) Since , is a rd root of unity.
Hence . Since ≠ , we have and
. We note that
Thus
(2) Since , is also a rd root of unity. As in (1),
we have . Hence,
Exercise 4.2
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
3. Solve the following equations.
(1) (2) (3)
(4) (5)
(6)
(7)
4. When , compute .
4.3 Matrices
⋯
⋯
An array of real or complex numbers of the form is called an
⋮ ⋮ ⋱ ⋮
⋯
× matrix or simply a matrix, which consists of rows and columns. The theory of
matrices has played a central role in mathematics, physics, engineering, and especially in
computer science. A branch of mathematics which deals with matrices is Linear Algebra.
In this section, as an introduction to Linear Algebra, we discuss basic facts only about 2×2
matrices. Every property is generalized to the theory of × matrices.
Example 4.3.1 Let and . Compute the following matrices.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
Solution
(1)
(2)
Remark The commutative law holds for the addition of two matrices but not for multiplication, as
we see in the above examples (3) and (4). In other words, for two 2×2 matrices and ,
, but may not be equal to .
(1) The matrix is called the zero matrix and is denoted by , i.e., .
(2) The matrix
is called the identity matrix and is denoted by , i.e.,
.
The following result is easy to check and we leave the proofs as exercises.
Definition 4.3.4-Determinant
following matrices.
(1) (2)
× ×
Proof We denote and by and . Then .
det
Corollary 4.3.6
Example 4.3.3 When and are matrices given in Example 4.3.2, compute the
determinant of .
Note that det and that is invertible since ․ . The following theorem shows
the relation between the invertibility and determinant of a matrix.
Let . Then, det ≠ if and only if is an invertible matrix. In this case,
the inverse matrix is given by
Proof If is invertible, then exists and . Hence,
, which shows that det ≠ . Conversely, suppose that det ≠ .
Putting
, a direct computation shows that . Hence
is invertible with .
The above theorem with Theorem 4.3.5 leads to the following result.
Corollary 4.3.9
Example 4.3.4 Determine whether the following matrices are invertible or not. If
invertible, find the inverse matrices.
(1) (2) (3)
inverse matrix is
Definition 4.3.10-Characteristic Polynomial
Exercise 4.3
2. Let
and . Compute the determinants of the
following matrices.
(1) (2) (3)
(4) (5)
3. For
,
and
, determine whether the
following matrices are invertible or not. If invertible, find the inverse matrices.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
In this section, we study the limit of the values of as approaches a given point
. Note that in the real line, there are two ways for to approach , from the left side and
from the right side of .
Definition 5.1.1-Limit
(2) Suppose that the values of get arbitrarily close to as approaches from
the left side of . Then is said to be the left-hand limit of at , and is
denoted by
lim
→
(3) is said to be the limit of at if the left-hand limit and the right-hand
limit of at are equal to the same value , i.e., . In this case, we
denote
lim
→
Solution Since lim and lim , lim does not exist.
→ → →
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[Figure 5.2]
≠
Example 5.1.3 Let
. Find lim if it exists.
→
Example 5.1.4 Let . Find
lim if it exists.
→
[Figure 5.4]
Example 5.1.5 Find lim for
if it exists.
→
i.e., lim ∞ . Hence neither the left-hand limit nor the right-hand limit exists. So
→
Remark As one can see from the above examples, the limit of at has nothing to do with
the value .
Suppose that lim and lim . Then the following properties hold.
→ →
lim if . Therefore, from the above properties of limits, we see that
→
lim if is a polynomial function. By using (3), we can compute the
→
Example 5.1.7 Find the limit of the rational function
at .
Solution lim
→ ⋅
Remark In the computation of the limit of a rational function, we cannot apply Theorem 5.1.2 (3)
if the denominator is 0. If this happens, as we see in the next examples, other methods
must be used.
Example 5.1.8 Find the limit of
at .
Solution lim lim lim
→ →
→
Example 5.1.9 Find the limit of
at if it exists.
Solution Since lim lim ∞ and lim
→
→
→
lim
∞ , the limit does not exist at .
→
Exercise 5.1
1. Determine whether the limits of the following functions exist at the given
points. Find the limits if they exist.
(1) , (2) ,
(3) , (4) ,
(5)
, (6) ,
(3) lim (4) lim
→
→
(5) lim (6) lim
→ →
Sometimes we are asked to compute lim where lim lim as in
→ → →
Example 5.1.8 of Section 5.1, which is called the indeterminate form of type . There
∞
are several other types of indeterminate forms such as , ∞ and ∞ . In this section,
∞
we study how to find the limits of these indeterminate forms.
∞
Solution In this case, the limit is an indeterminate form of type . To find the limit, we
∞
divide both the numerator and the denominator by to get
lim
lim
→∞ →∞
∞
Remark If the limit of a rational function is an indeterminate form of type as in the above
∞
example, it is enough to look at the terms of the highest degree in the numerator and
denominator.
(1) lim (2) lim
→∞ →∞
Solution (1) lim
lim
lim .
→∞ →∞ →∞
(2) lim lim lim ∞ .
→∞ →∞
→∞
(1) lim (2) lim
→ →∞
Solution (1) lim lim
→ →
lim
→
lim
→
(2) lim
lim
→∞ →∞
lim
→∞
Solution First, we consider the case when . By comparing the areas of the triangle
, the circular sector and the triangle [Figure 5.6], we obtain
. From this we get . Hence
. Since lim , we deduce lim . For , we use the
→
→
substitution to have
lim
lim lim
→ → →
Therefore, lim
→
[Figure 5.6]
The limit lim is an indeterminate form of type ∞ . It is known that this limit
→
exists and its value is an irrational number about ⋯ . We define the value by .
lim
→
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The logarithmic function with the base is called the natural logarithm,
and is denoted by . Note that is the inverse function of .
[Figure 5.7]
Example 5.2.5 Find
lim .
→ ∞
Solution Under the substitution , note that → as →∞ . Hence
lim
→ ∞
lim
→
Exercise 5.2
(3) lim
(4) lim
→∞ →
(5) lim
(6) lim
→ →
(7) lim (8) lim
→ →
(3) lim (4) lim
→ →
(1) lim
→∞ (2) lim
→
(3) lim (4) lim
→ →
(5) lim (6) lim
→ →∞
5.3 Continuity
Definition 5.3.1-Continuity at
Example 5.3.2 Define in a way that extends to be continuous on .
Example 5.3.3 Let , where denotes the largest integer not
exceeding . Find the points at which is discontinuous, and sketch the graph of
.
Solution Note that if ≤ for an integer . Then
on the interval , and hence is discontinuous at each integer . The graph
is given in [Figure 5.8].
[Figure 5.8]
(1) If both and are continuous at , then the following functions are
continuous at : ± , , (if ≠ ).
(2) If is continuous at , and is continuous at , then the
composite function ∘ is continuous at .
Obviously, the identity function and constant functions are continuous on . Theorem
5.3.3 implies that every polynomial function is continuous on , and rational functions
are also continuous except at the points where the denominator vanishes. Besides these
functions, irrational functions, trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic
functions are all continuous at the points they are defined.
Example 5.3.4 Show that
is continuous on .
Put and . Then both and are
Solution
continuous on . Since
, is also continuous
The requirements that the interval be closed and that be continuous are key
ingredients in Theorem 5.3.4. Without them, the conclusion of the theorem may not be
true. For example, even if is continuous on , neither the maximum value
nor the minimum value exists. However, it does not mean that a maximum value or a
minimum value can never exist if any one of the two conditions is not satisfied. For
Example 5.3.5 Find the maximum value and the minimum value of in the
interval . Find the values at which attains the maximum value and the
minimum value.
Solution Since is continuous, it takes on both the maximum value and the
minimum value in . Since is an increasing function, is the
minimum value, and is the maximum value.
Example 5.3.6 Find the maximum value and the minimum value of
∈
in the interval if they exist. Find the values (if any) at which takes on the
maximum value and the minimum value.
Solution is the minimum value. But does not attain a maximum
value.
[Figure 5.9]
Example 5.3.7 Show that the equation has a root in .
Example 5.3.8 Show that the equation has a root in .
Solution Put . Then is continuous on . Since
and , there exists ∈ satisfying .
Exercise 5.3
3. Find the maximum values and/or the minimum values of the following
functions in the given intervals if they exist.
(1) , (2) ,
(3) , ∞ ∞ (4) ,
5. Determine the constants and so that the following functions are continuous
on .
≤
(1)
≤
(2) ≤≤
7. Suppose that is continuous on [0, 1], and satisfies ≤ ≤ for every
∈ [0, 1]. Show that for some in [0, 1].
5.4 Derivatives
Example 5.4.1 Find the average rate of change of from to .
Definition 5.4.1-Derivative
For a function , suppose that lim exists at . We denote the
→
limit by ′ and call ′ the derivative (the rate of change, or the instantaneous
rate of change) of at .
[Figure 5.11]
Example 5.4.2 For , find ′ , the derivative of at .
Solution ′ lim lim lim
→ → →
Example 5.4.3 Find the equation of the tangent line to at the point .
Solution Since ′ lim lim , the slope of the tangent line is 4.
→ →
Then the equation of the tangent line passing through is given by .
Hence, .
Solution The average rate of change of from to is . Since
lim
and lim , lim does not exist. Hence is not differentiable
→
→ →
at .
lim lim
→ →
′ ⋅
Hence, is continuous at .
For each at which is differentiable, we can associate the value ′ , which
leads to a new function called the derivative of .
For a differentiable function , the function ′ lim is
→
called the derivative of . ′ is also denoted by ′ or . The process of
calculating a derivative is called differentiation.
Solution (1) ′ lim
→
(2) ′ lim lim
→ →
(3) ′ lim lim
→ →
lim
→
(4) ′ lim lim
→ →
lim
→
′ lim
→
lim
→
lim
→
′ ′
‑
Example 5.4.6 Show that the derivative of is ′ for each integer .
′ ‑
′
‑ ‑ ‑
Example 5.4.6 and the formula (1) of Theorem 5.4.4 show that the derivative of a
polynomial function ⋯ is ′ ‑ ‑ ‑
⋯ .
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Example 5.4.7 Find the derivatives of the following functions.
(1) (2) (3)
Exercise 5.4
In the previous section, we studied the concept of the derivative and basic methods of
differentiation. In this section we discuss some advanced techniques of differentiation.
These techniques will be applied to find the derivatives of various functions such as a
composite function, an implicit function and an inverse function.
[Figure 5.12]
lim
→
lim ⋅
→
lim
∗
→
∗
∗
⋅ lim
→
′ ⋅′ ⋅
Example 5.5.1 Find if .
Example 5.5.2 Find if .
′
′
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144 CHAPTER 5 Differentiation
Differentiation of an Implicit Function
Example 5.5.3 Find the derivative of at .
Solution Put to get . Differentiating both sides with respect to
, we have ′ , which is ′ . Hence ′ ′ .
Therefore,
′
Remark We can solve the equation for to find an explicit function. That is, if we
solve the equation for , we obtain ±
. Among these two, we
must take
since the graph passes through the point . Then we
compute the derivative of
at to get the same result.
Example 5.5.4 Find the equation of the tangent line to at .
Theorem 5.5.2
Example 5.5.5 Find the derivative of .
′
′
′
Solution
Remark For the function , the derivative at does not exist. Since lim ′ ∞ ,
→
the graph of has a vertical tangent line at .
[Figure 5.13]
′
′
Solution
′
We examine the derivative of the inverse function of . Since is the inverse function
of , we have . Differentiating both sides, we get ′ ⋅′ and
hence ′ . If we put , we obtain ′ . In general, if
′ ′
we put , then and ′ . We summarize this fact as follows.
′
Example 5.5.7 Find ′ when .
′
′
′
If and , then .
′
Example 5.5.8 Find of the following parametric equations.
(1) (2)
Solution (1)
(2)
Exercise 5.5
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
2. Find the equations of the tangent lines to the following curves at the given
points.
(1) ,
(2)
,
(3) , (4) ,
(5) , (6) ,
4. Find the equations of the tangent lines to the following parameterized curves at
the given points.
(1) ,
(2)
,
We begin with the computation of lim . By using Example 5.2.4, we have
→
lim lim
→ →
→
lim ⋅ ⋅
⋅⋅
From this fact, we can derive various formulas for derivatives of the trigonometric
functions.
′ lim
→
lim
→
→
lim
⋅ ⋅
(3) Since , Theorem 5.4.4 (3) gives
′ ′
′
By applying Theorem 5.4.4 (3) to , , and , we get the following results,
whose proofs are left as exercises.
We recall that is the logarithmic function with base , and that it is the inverse
function of , where lim . We study the derivatives of , ,
→
and . For this purpose, we need to compute the following limit.
Example 5.6.3 Show that lim .
→
Solution Under the substitution , note that → as → . Hence
{ }
lim lim lim
→ → →
(1) ⇒ ′ (2) ⇒ ′
(3) ⇒ ′ (4) ⇒ ′
(2) Since ,
′ ⋅
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(3) Taking the logarithm on both sides of , we get . By using the implicit
′
differentiation, we obtain . Hence ′ .
(4) Since ,
′ ⋅ ′ ⋅
Example 5.6.4 Find the derivative of .
′
Solution (1) ′
(2) Since
, we have ′
Example 5.6.6 Find the derivative of .
Solution Since , we have
′
Example 5.6.7 Find the derivative of .
′
Exercise 5.6
2. Show that .
4. Find of the following functions.
(1) (2)
(3) (4)
(5) (6)
(7) (8)
5. Find the equations of the straight lines satisfying the given conditions.
(1) Tangent line to passing through (0, 1).
(2) Tangent line to with the slope 2.
(3) Tangent line to at (3, 0).
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5.7 Applications of Derivatives
Proof If is a constant function, the result is obviously true. Assume that is not
a constant function. By the Max-Min Theorem (Theorem 5.3.4), takes on a
minimum value and a maximum value in . Since is not a constant
function, or is attained in the open interval . Without loss of generality, we
may assume that is attained at in the open interval . Since is the
minimum, ≥ for every ∈ . Hence
′
Proof Let be the straight line passing through the two points and .
Note that the slope of is , i.e., ′ . Put
. Then is continuous on , and differentiable on . Since
[Figure 5.14]
Example 5.7.1 For , find ∈ satisfying the Mean Value Theorem.
Remark The requirement that the interval on which is continuous be closed is essential. For
instance, the function is not continuous at . The average rate of change of
this function in is . However, there does not exist ∈
satisfying ′ since ′ for .
[Figure 5.15]
The condition of differentiability of on is also necessary. For example, the
[Figure 5.16]
Proof By the Mean Value Theorem, there exists in such that
The following theorem is a generalization of the above observation. The proof can be
given by using Cauchy’s Mean Value Theorem but it will be omitted because it goes
beyond the level of this book.
exists or is ± ∞ , then
′
lim
lim
′
→ →
(1) lim (2) lim (3) lim
→ → →∞
Solution (1) lim
lim lim
→ → →
(2) lim lim lim
lim
→
→ →
→
(3) lim lim ∞
→∞ →∞
[Figure 5.17]
This function has a local maximum value at , and a local minimum value
at . As we see from the graph, the function is increasing on ∞ ,
decreasing on , and increasing on ∞ . Note that attains a local
maximum value at , and a local minimum value at . Generally, a local
maximum value is attained at the point where the function changes from increasing to
decreasing. Similarly, a local minimum value is attained at the point where the function
Example 5.7.3 Find the local maximum value and/or the local minimum value of
.
Remark The converse of Theorem 5.7.6 (3) is not true. For instance, satisfies
′ , but has no local maximum value nor local minimum value. It may
happen that attains local maximum or local minimum values at points where
is not differentiable. For example, has a local minimum at , at which
is not differentiable.
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among the critical points. Hence the absolute maximum and absolute minimum values of
a continuous function on are attained either at the critical points or at the end points
and .
Example 5.7.4 Find the absolute maximum and absolute minimum values of
in .
Solution Since ′ , the critical points are ± . The values of at the
critical points ± and at the end points are
, , ,
Hence the absolute maximum value is , and the absolute minimum value is .
Consider any two points and on the graph of . If every
line segment connecting arbitrary chosen two points and lies above
the graph of ([Figure 5.18]), then the graph of is called concave
upward. If the line segments lie below the graph of , then the graph of
is called concave downward.
[Figure 5.18]
Solution (1) Since ″ , the graph is concave downward for and upward for
. Hence is the only inflection point.
′
(2) Note that ′′
.
Note that the function is not defined at . Hence is the only inflection point.
Example 5.7.6 Sketch the graph of .
Solution Note that ′ . Hence ′ at and is
increasing on ∞ , decreasing on ∪ , and increasing on ∞
[Figure 5.19]
(7) lim (8) lim
→ →∞
→
(9) lim
(10) lim
→∞
5. Find the absolute maximum and absolute minimum values of the following
functions in the given intervals.
(1) ,
(2) ,
(3) ,
(4)
,
Suppose that ′ . Then the set of all antiderivatives of is called the
indefinite integral of with respect to , and is denoted by , i.e.,
( a constant). In this case, the function is called the
integrand, and the constant of integration.
(1)
(2)
Solution (1) Since ′ , is an antiderivative of . Thus
′
(2) Since , we have
. Hence
Remark The concepts of the derivative and the antiderivative are converse to each other. As in
′
(2) Since
,
If the functions and have antiderivatives, then the following equality holds
for every constant .
Now we study various formulas for indefinite integrals. The proofs are omitted since
they can be verified immediately by differentiating the right hand sides.
(2) If , then
(1)
(2)
(3)
Solution (1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(2)
≠
(1)
(2)
(3)
(2)
Solution (1)
(2)
Using the derivative of a logarithmic function and the Chain Rule, we have
′
′
Hence
′
For example,
(3)
′
(4)
′
Remark We can obtain Theorem 6.1.5 (5), (6) and 6.1.6 (1), (2) by using the substitution rule,
which will be discussed in Section 6.3.
Exercise 6.1
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
3. Suppose that the graph of passes through the origin (0, 0), and that the
slope of the tangent line at is . Find .
Let us find the area of the region between the graph of a nonnegative continuous
function and the -axis from to .
[Figure 6.1]
We partition the interval into subintervals of the same length by
choosing ⋯ . The vertical lines through the points
good approximation for if the number of rectangles is small. But it is known that this
approximation gets arbitrarily close to as approaches infinity. In other words,
lim lim
→∞
. This limit is called the definite integral of from
→∞
to , and is denoted by . We call and the limits of the integration.
Remark The existence of the limit is guaranteed when is continuous. One can also use
instead of
to get the same result lim lim .
→ ∞ →∞
Now we define without the assumption that ≥ . Put
and .
lim
→∞
lim
→∞
(1)
(2)
Solution (1) Since and , we have
lim
→ ∞
lim
→∞
lim
→ ∞
(2) A similar computation with yields
lim
→ ∞
lim
→∞
As we see from Example 6.2.1, computing definite integrals by using the definition is
somewhat complicated. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus which relates definite
integrals with derivatives, however, gives an easy way to compute definite integrals. We
omit the proof of the following theorem.
Solution (1) Since
, we have
Solution (1)
(2)
Example 6.2.5 Evaluate
Solution
Exercise 6.2
(3) (4)
5. Suppose that a continuous function satisfies . Determine
6. Suppose that a continuous function satisfies .
Determine .
Suppose that is an antiderivative of and . Then the Chain Rule
gives
′ ′
′
(1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(2)
Solution (1) Put . Then , or . So
(1)
(2)
(2) Substitute
, and . Then , and so
The substitution rule can also be applied to definite integrals. In this case, we should be
careful that we have to change the limits of integration.
′
Example 6.3.4 Evaluate .
Solution If we put
, then , and so . Note
that when and that when . Since , we have
Exercise 6.3
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(3)
(4)
(5) (6)
For two differentiable functions and , the derivative of is given by
Thus we get ′ ′ ′ , which gives the following result.
′ ′
(2) We regard as the product of and ′ . Since ′ and
, we have
․
In the previous examples, the method of integration by parts works well. But it often
happens that we should apply the method of integration by parts more than once as in the
next example.
The second integral is just like the first one, except that it has instead of . To
Hence
Therefore,
′ ′
Example 6.4.4 Evaluate .
Solution If we put and ′ , then ′ and . Hence
⋅
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(3) By using the method of integration by parts, show that for any integer ≥ ,
(1)
(2)
Solution (1)
(2)
In the above example, the integration of is easy, but in general, more complicated
computations may be involved. In this book, we only consider the case when splits
into a product of polynomials of degree 1. We investigate the integration in the following
three cases.
(I) The equation has no repeated roots: For example, if the degree of is 2,
then is of the form with ≠ . In this case, we
decompose into and find the constants
and . The fractions and are called the partial fractions.
Example 6.5.2 Evaluate
.
Solution Put . Then after clearing
(II) The equation has only one repeated root: For example, if the degree of
is , then is of the form . In this case, we decompose
into and find the constants and .
Example 6.5.3 Evaluate
.
Solution From , we have
. Then and . Hence , and
(III) (General case) The equation has several roots with repetitions allowed:
Even in this general case, can be expressed as a sum of partial fractions in a
similar way.
Example 6.5.4 Evaluate
.
Solution Put , and multiply both
sides by . Then a direct computation shows that , , and
There are several typical methods to integrate irrational functions, most of which are
using substitutions. Here we discuss some simple cases that transform the integrands to
rational functions under suitable substitutions.
(1)
(2)
(2) If we put
, then . So and .
Hence
. Hence
Since , we have
Exercise 6.5
(3)
(4)
(3) (4)
(5) (6)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(Compare the result with Theorem 6.1.6)
Area
If , then
[Figure 6.2]
Example 6.6.1 Find the area of the region between and the -axis from
to .
Solution Note that ≤ for ≤ ≤ , and ≥ for ≤ ≤ . Hence the
area is
[Figure 6.3]
Example 6.6.2 Find the area of the region enclosed by and in the
interval ≤ ≤ .
[Figure 6.4]
Let us consider a solid in [Figure 6.5]. This solid lies between planes perpendicular to
the -axis at and . At each point in the interval , let be the area
of the cross section of the solid by a plane perpendicular to the -axis at . Then the
volume of the solid is given by
[Figure 6.5]
Example 6.6.3 Find the volume of a cone of height whose base is an ellipse of area .
Solution We place the cone with its altitude along the -axis and its vertex at the origin
as in [Figure 6.6].
[Figure 6.6]
Then the area of the cross section of the cone by the plane perpendicular to the
-axis at the point satisfies
which gives . Therefore,
Solids of revolution are solids whose shapes are generated by revolving plane regions
about some axes. Suppose that we have a region between the graph of a continuous
function and the -axis in the interval ≤ ≤ , and that the solid is
generated by revolving the region about the -axis. Then the cross section at of the
solid perpendicular to the -axis is a disk of radius with area .
Hence the volume equals
[Figure 6.7]
The volume of the solid generated by revolving about the -axis the region between
the graph of the continuous function and the -axis from to is
[Figure 6.8]
Example 6.6.5 Find the volume of the solid obtained by revolving about the -axis the
[Figure 6.9]
Solution First, we find the -coordinates of the points where the curves and
meet. From the equation
, we get
. Thus
, from which we obtain . Hence
[Figure 6.11]
1. Find the areas of the regions enclosed by the given curves and lines.
(1) -axis, ≤ ≤
(2)
(3)
(4)
2. Find the volumes of the solids generated by revolving about the -axis the
regions bounded by the given curves and lines.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
≥
(6) ≤ ≤
(7) ≤ ≤
(8) ≤ ≤
(9)
(10)
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Chapter 1 Function
Exercise 1.1
Exercise 1.2
1.
, Domain :
2. , : arbitrary real number
3.
4. (1)
(2) ≤
(3)
5.
6.
Exercise 1.3
1.
2. (1) (2) (3)
3. (1)
(2)
4. (1) (2)
5. (1) (2)
7. (1) (2) (3)
(4) (5) (6)
(4) ∞ ∪ ∪ ∞
9. (1) Maximum at , Minimum at
(2) Maximum at , Minimum at
10. (1)
(2)
11.
12. a right triangle with hypotenuse
Exercise 2.1
1. (1) (2) (3) (4)
2. (1) ° (2) ° (3) ° (4) °
3. (1) (2)
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4. (1) (2)
5.
6.
7. 8.
9. km
Exercise 2.2
1. (1) (2) (3)
(4)
(5) (6)
2.
3. We denote by and the set of all real numbers and all integers, respectively.
(1) Domain : ≠ ∈ , Range : ≥ ≤ ,
fundamental period : , symmetric with respect to the origin
(2) Domain : ≠ ∈ , Range : ≥ ≤ ,
fundamental period : , symmetric with respect to the -axis
(3) Domain : ≠ ∈ , Range : , fundamental period : ,
symmetric with respect to the origin
4. (1) (2)
8.
10. (1) (2) (3)
(4) (5) (6)
11. (1)
(2) ∪
(3) ∪
12. (1) (2) (3) (4)
2. 5.
6. for , , and for ,
7.
8. (1) (2) (3)
9. (1) (2)
(3) (4)
11.
12.
,
14. Maximum
15.
16. (1)
(2) ±
(3)
(4) (5) (6)
17. (1) (2)
(3)
18. (1) (2)
Exercise 2.4
1. 3.
5. 6.
7.
Exercise 3.1
1.
3. (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
4.
5.
Exercise 3.2
1. (1) (2)
(3) (4)
2. (1) ,
(2) ,
3. (1)
(2)
4.
5. (2)
6.
Exercise 3.3
2. (1) (2) (3) (4)
4. (1) neither perpendicular nor parallel (2) perpendicular
5. ∠ ∠ ∠
6. (1) (2)
(3) (4)
7. (1) ± (2) ±
8.
Exercise 4.1
1. (1) (2) (3) (4)
3. (1) (2) (3) (4)
4. (1)
(2)
(3) (4)
Exercise 4.2
1. (1)
(2)
or
(3) (5)
(4)
(3)
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,
(5) ,
,
(6)
(7)
4.
5.
Exercise 4.3
1. (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
4. (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Exercise 5.1
Exercise 5.2
1. (1) (2) (3)
(4) (5) (6)
(7) (8)
2. (1) (2)
(3) (4)
3. (1) (2)
(3) (4) It does not exist or ∞
(5) (6)
Exercise 5.3
≠
(2) A counterexample : , ,
≠
Exercise 5.4
Exercise 5.5
1. (1) ′ (2) ′
Exercise 5.6
(8) ′
5. (1) (2) (3)
6.
2. (1) (2) (3)
(4) (5) (6)
(7) (8) ∞ (9)
(10) ∞
3. (1) local min value : , local max value :
(4) local max value :
4.
5. (1) absolute min value : , absolute max value :
(2) absolute min value : , absolute max value :
(3) absolute min value :
, absolute max value :
Chapter 6 Integration
Exercise 6.1
1. (1) (2)
(3) (4)
(5)
(6)
(7) (8)
(9) (10)
(11) (12)
2. (1) (2)
(3)
3.
Exercise 6.2
1. (1) (2)
2. (1) lim
→∞
lim
→∞
(2) lim
→∞
lim
→∞
Exercise 6.3
1. (1)
(2)
2. (1) (2)
(3) (4)
Exercise 6.4
1. (1)
(2)
(3) (4)
(5)
(6)
(7) (8)
(9) (10)
(11) (12)
2. (1) (2)
(3) (4)
3. (1)
(2)
1. (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
2. (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
3. (1) (2) (3)
(4) (5)
(6)
Exercise 6.6
1. (1) (2)
(3) (4)
2. (1)
(2)
(3)
(4) (5) (6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
A C
Index 211
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General angle 46
D
General exponential function 30
De Moivre’s Theorem 109 Graph of a function 14
Decreasing function 22 Graph of an equation 17
Definite integral 173 Graph of cosine function 51
Degree 41 Graph of sine function 50
Degree of a polynomial 13 Graph of tangent function 52
Dependent variable 11
Derivative 138 H
Derivative of a logarithmic function 151
Half-Angle formulas 64
Derivative of an exponential function 151
Heron’s formula 76
Derivatives of trigonometric functions 149
Higher order derivatives 142
Determinant 114
Horizontal asymptote 15
Differentiable 138
Differentiation 140
I
Differentiation of an implicit function 145
Differentiation of an inverse function 147 Identity function 12
Differentiation of parametric equations 147 Identity matrix 114
Directional vector 83 Image of a function 11
Domain 11 Imaginary part of a complex number 101
Double-Angle formulas 63 Implicit function 145
Increasing function 22
E
Indefinite integral 167
Independent variable 11
Even function 24
Indeterminate form 128
Explicit function 145
Inflection point 160
Exponential function 27, 28
Initial side 41
Injection 20
F
Injective function 20
First law of cosines 74 Inner product 91
Frequency 55 Instantaneous rate of change 138
Function 11 Integrand 167
Fundamental period 54 Integration by parts 181, 183
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus 175 Integration of irrational functions 187
212 Index
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Index 213
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