Chapter 13
Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach Volume II · 13 exercises
Problem 1
Find the critical points, if any, of \(F\). a. \(\quad F(x, y)=2 x+5 y+7\) b. \(\quad F(x, y)=x^{2}+4 x y+3 y^{2}\) c. \(\quad F(x, y)=x^{3}(1-x)+y\) d. \(\quad F(x, y)=x y(1-x y)\) e. \(\quad F(x, y)=\left(x-x^{2}\right)\left(y-y^{2}\right) \quad\) f. \(\quad F(x, y)=\frac{x}{y}\) g. \(\quad F(x, y)=e^{x+y}\) h. \(\quad F(x, y)=\sin (x+y)\) \(\begin{array}{lll}\text { i. } & F(x, y)=\frac{x^{2}}{1+y^{2}} & \text { j. } \quad F(x, y)\end{array}=\cos x \sin y\)
11 step solution
Problem 1
Draw three dimensional graphs of a. $$ F(x, y)=2 \quad \text { b. } \quad F(x, y)=x $$ c. $$ F(x, y)=x^{2} $$ $$ \text { d. } \quad F(x, y)=(x+y) / 2 $$ e. \(F(x, y)=0.2 x+0.3 y \quad\) f. \(\quad F(x, y)=\left(x^{2}+y^{2}\right) / 4\) $$ F(x, y)=0.5 x e^{-y} $$ g. h. \(\quad F(x, y)=\sin y\) i. \(\quad F(x, y)=0.5 x+\sin y \quad\) j. \(\quad F(x, y)=x \sin y\) k. \(\quad F(x, y)=\sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}} \quad\) 1. \(\quad F(x, y)=x y\) m. \(\quad F(x, y)=\frac{1}{0.4+x^{2}+y^{2}}\) n. \(\quad F(x, y)=e^{\left(-x^{2}-y^{2}\right)}\) o. \(F(x, y)=|x y| \quad\) p. \(\quad F(x, y)=\sin \left(x^{2}+y^{2}\right)\)
16 step solution
Problem 2
For each of the following functions, find the critical points and use Theorem 13.2 .1 to determine whether they are local maxima, local minima, or saddle points or none of these. a. $$ F(x, y)=-x^{2}+x y-y^{2} $$ b. $$ F(x, y)=x^{2}+x y-y^{2} $$ c. $$ F(x, y)=x^{2}+y^{2}-2 x y+2 x-2 y $$ d. $$ F(x, y)=-x^{2}-5 y^{2}+2 x y-10 x+6 y+20 $$
3 step solution
Problem 2
Find the partial derivatives, \(F_{1}, F_{2}, F_{1,1}, F_{1,2}, F_{2,1}\) and \(F_{2,2}\) of the following functions. a. \(\quad F(x, y)=3 x-5 y+7\) b. \(\quad F(x, y)=x^{2}+4 x y+3 y^{2}\) c. \(\quad F(x, y)=x^{3} y^{5}\) d. \(\quad F(x, y)=\sqrt{x y}\) e. \(\quad F(x, y)=\ln (x \times y) \quad\) f. \(\quad F(x, y)=\frac{x}{y}\) g. \(\quad F(x, y)=e^{x+y}\) h. \(\quad F(x, y)=x^{2} e^{-y}\) i. \(\quad F(x, y)=\sin (2 x+3 y)\) j. \(F(x, y)=e^{-x} \cos y\)
5 step solution
Problem 3
Find \(C\) and \(b\) so that \(C e^{0 x}\) closely approximates the data \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|} \hline\(x\) & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \hline\(y\) & 2.18 & 5.98 & 16.1 & 43.6 & 129.7 \\ \hline \end{tabular} Observe that for \(y=C e^{b x}, \ln y=\ln C+b x\). Therefore, fit \(a+b x\) to the number pairs, \((x, \ln y)\) using linear least squares. Then \(\ln y_{k} \doteq a+b x_{k},\) and $$ y_{k} \doteq e^{a+b x_{k}}=e^{a} \times e^{b x_{k}}=C e^{b x_{k}}, \quad \text { where } \quad C=e^{a} $$
6 step solution
Problem 5
a. Show that $$ u(x, t)=20 e^{-t} \sin \pi x, \quad 0 \leq x \leq 1, \quad 0 \leq t $$ solves $$ u_{t}(x, t)=\frac{1}{\pi^{2}} u_{x x}(x, t), \quad u(x, 0)=20 \sin \pi x, \quad \text { and } \quad u(0, t)=u(1, t)=0 $$ b. Describe a physical problem for which this is a solution. c. What is the 'eventual' value of \(u(x, t)\) (what is \(\left.\lim _{t \rightarrow \infty} u(x, t)\right) ?\) d. At what time, \(t,\) will the maximum value of \(u(x, t)\) for \(0 \leq x \leq 1\) be \(20 ?\)
8 step solution
Problem 6
For \(P=n R T / V\), find \(\frac{\partial}{\partial V} P\) and \(\frac{\partial}{\partial T} P\). For fixed \(T\), how does \(P\) change as \(V\) increases? For fixed \(V\), how does \(P\) change as \(T\) increases?
5 step solution
Problem 7
Find the largest box that will fit in the positive octant \((x \geq 0, y \geq 0,\) and \(z \geq 0)\) and underneath the plane \(z=12-2 x-3 y\).
7 step solution
Problem 8
Find the largest box that will fit in the positive octant \((x \geq 0, y \geq 0,\) and \(z \geq 0)\) and underneath the plane \(z=12-2 x-3 y\).
7 step solution
Problem 8
Let \(F\) be defined by $$ \begin{aligned} F(x, y) &=x^{2} & \text { for } & y>0 \\ &=0 & \text { for } \quad y \leq 0 \end{aligned} $$ 1\. Sketch a graph of \(F\) in three dimensional space. 2\. Is \(F_{1}(x, y)\) continuous on the interior of a circle with center (0,0)\(?\) 3\. Let \(L(x, y)=0\) for all \((x, y) .\) Is it true that $$ \lim _{(x, y) \rightarrow(0,0)} \frac{F(x, y)-L(x, y)}{\sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}}}=0 \text { ? } $$ 4\. Are you willing to call the plane \(z=0\) a tangent plane to the graph of \(F ?\)
5 step solution
Problem 9
Find the point of the plane \(z=2 x+3 y-12\) that is 1\. closest to the origin. 2\. closest to (4,5,6)
9 step solution
Problem 10
Suppose there is an infinitely long tube containing water lying along the \(X\)
-axis from \(-\infty\) to \(\infty\) and at time \(t=0\) a bolus injection of one
gram of salt is made at the origin. Let \(u(x, t)\) be the concentration of salt
at position \(x\) in the tube at time \(t\).
Considering \(t=0\) is a bit of stressful: \(u(x, 0)=0\) for \(x \neq 0 ;\) but the
bolus injection of one \(\mathrm{gm}\) at the origin causes the concentration at
\(x=0\) and \(t=0\) to be rather large; \(u(0,0)=\infty\). Moving on, for \(t>0\) we
may assume that
$$
u_{t}(x, t)=k u_{x x}(x, t)
$$
where the diffusion coefficient, \(k,\) describes the rate at which salt
diffuses in water.
a. Show that
$$
u(x, t)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{4 \pi k t}} e^{-x^{2} /(4 k t)}
$$
is a solution to Equation 13.38 .
b. Suppose \(k=1 / 4\). Sketch the graphs of \(u(x, 1), u(x, 4),\) and \(u(x, 8)\).
c. Suppose \(k=1 / 4\). Sketch the graphs of \(u(x, 1), u(x, 1 / 2),\) and \(u(x, 1
/ 4)\).
d. Estimate the areas under the previous curves. For any time, \(t_{0},\) what
do you expect to be the area under the curve of \(u\left(x, t_{0}\right),
\infty
5 step solution
Problem 10
Find the point of the sphere \(x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}=25\) that is closest to (3,4,5) .
8 step solution