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Give the term of the Taylor series expansion of the function
about
.
The term of a Taylor series expansion about
is
.
We can find by differentiating twice in succession:
so the term is
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Find the unit vector of .
To solve for the unit vector, the following formula must be used:
unit vector:
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The polar coordinates of a point are . Give its
-coordinate in the rectangular coordinate system (nearest hundredth).
Given the polar coordinates , the
-coordinate is
. We can find this coordinate by substituting
:
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The polar coordinates of a point are . Give its
-coordinate in the rectangular coordinate system (nearest hundredth).
Given the polar coordinates , the
-coordinate is
. We can find this coordinate by substituting
:
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The above graph depicts a function . Does
exist, and why or why not?
exists if and only if
;
the actual value of is irrelevant, as is whether
is continuous there.
As can be seen,
and
;
therefore, ,
and exists.
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Given vector and
, solve for
.
To solve for , We need to first multiply
into vector
to find
and multiply
into vector
to find
; then we need to subtract the
components in the vector and the
components together:
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The graph depicts a function . Does
exist?
exists if and only if
; the actual value of
is irrelevant.
As can be seen, and
; therefore,
, and
exists.
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The above graph depicts a function . Does
exist, and why or why not?
exists if and only if
. As can be seen from the diagram,
, but
. Since
,
does not exist.
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A function is defined by the following piecewise equation:
At , the function is:
The first step to determine continuity at a point is to determine if the function is defined at that point. When we substitute in 3 for , we get 18 as our
-value.
is thus defined for this function.
The next step is determine if the limit of the function is defined at that point. This means that the left-hand limit must be equal to the right-hand limit at . Substitution reveals the following:
Both sides of the function, therefore, approach a -value of 18.
Finally, we must ensure that the curve is smooth by checking the limit of the derivative of both sides.
Since the function passes all three tests, it is continuous.
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The polar coordinates of a point are . Give its
-coordinate in the rectangular coordinate system (nearest hundredth).
Given the polar coordinates , the
-coordinate is
. We can find this coordinate by substituting
:
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The polar coordinates of a point are . Give its
-coordinate in the rectangular coordinate system (nearest hundredth).
Given the polar coordinates , the
-coordinate is
. We can find this coordinate by substituting
:
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Let be vectors. All of the following are defined EXCEPT:
The cross product of two vectors (represented by "x") requires two vectors and results in another vector. By contrast, the dot product (represented by "") between two vectors requires two vectors and results in a scalar, not a vector.
If we were to evaluate , we would first have to evaluate
, which would result in a scalar, because it is a dot product.
However, once we have a scalar value, we cannot calculate a cross product with another vector, because a cross product requires two vectors. For example, we cannot find the cross product between 4 and the vector <1, 2, 3>; the cross product is only defined for two vectors, not scalars.
The answer is .
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Let
and
be the following vectors:
and
. If
is the acute angle between the vectors, then which of the following is equal to
?
The cosine of the acute angle between two vectors is given by the following formula:
, where
represents the dot product of the two vectors,
is the magnitude of vector a, and
is the magnitude of vector b.
First, we will need to compute the dot product of the two vectors. Let's say we have two general vectors in space (three dimensions), and
. Let the components of
be
and the components of
be
. Then the dot product
is defined as follows:
.
Going back to the original problem, we can use this definition to find the dot product of and
.
The next two things we will need to compute are and
.
Let the components of a general vector be
. Then
is defined as
.
Thus, if and
, then
and
.
Now, we put all of this information together to find the cosine of the angle between the two vectors.
We just need to simplify this.
.
In order to get it completely simplified, we have to rationalize the denominator by multiplying the numerator and denominator by the sqare root of 21.
.
We just have one more step. We need to solve for the value of the angle. In order to do this, we can take the inverse cosine of both sides of the equation.
.
The answer is .
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Find the magnitude of vector :
To solve for the magnitude of a vector, we use the following formula:
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Given vector and
, solve for
.
To solve for , we need to add the
components in the vector and the
components together:
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Given vector and
, solve for
.
To solve for , we need to subtract the
components in the vector and the
components together:
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Is a unit vector?
To verify where a vector is a unit vector, we must solve for its magnitude. If the magnitude is equal to 1 then the vector is a unit vector:
is a unit vector because magnitude is equal to
.
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Given vector . Solve for the direction (angle) of the vector:
To solve for the direction of a vector, we use the following formula:
=
with the vector being
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Solve for vector given direction of
and magnitude of
.
To solve for a vector with the magnitude and direction given, we use the following formula:
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Given vector and
, solve for
.
To solve for , We need to multiply
into vector
to find
; then we need to subtract the
components in the vector and the
components together:
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