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Paper Name: Mathematics
Paper Code : M101
Teacher Name: Amalendu Singha Mahapatra
Chapter – 2
Successive Differentiation
Lecture 3:
Objective:
and so on.
Notation
The symbols for the successive derivatives are usually abbreviated as follows:
or,
For certain functions a general expression involving may be found for the -th
derivative. The usual plan is to find a number of the first successive derivatives, as many
as may be necessary to discover their law of formation, and then by induction write down
the -th derivative.
dn y
Example 1. Given y = e ax , find .
dx n
, , ..., .
dny
Example 2. Given y = log x , find .
dx n
, , , , ... .
dny
Example 3. Given y = sinx, find .
dx n
,
Assignment:
{
(1) If u = sinax + cosax , then show that vn = a n 1 + ( −1) n sin 2ax } 2 . WBUT 03
Lecture 4:
Objective:
Leibnitz's Formula for the -th derivative of a product :
This formula expresses the -th derivative of the product of two variables in terms of the
variables themselves and their successive derivatives.
If u and v are functions of , each possessing derivatives upto nth order, then the nth
derivative of their product is given by
d3y
Example 1. Given y = e x log x , find by Leibnitz's Formula.
dx 3
v = log x
Solution. Let , and ; then , , , ,
, .
dny
Example 2. Given y = x 2 e ax , find by Leibnitz's Formula.
dx n
Assignment:
1. If y = ( x 2 − 1) n , then show that
( x 2 − 1) yn + 2 + 2 xyn +1 − n(n + 1) yn = 0
Hence deduce that
d 2 dpn
(1 − x ) + n(n + 1) pn = 0
dx dx
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dn 2
wherepn = n ( x − 1) n
dx
2. If y = 5.x + 3, theny100 =
100