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The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Course Examination 2nd Term, 2021-22

Course Code & Title : MATH1510J Calculus for Engineers

Time allowed : 2 hours 00 minutes

• The testing time of this exam is 120 minutes.

• There are a total of 160 points and 12 questions.

• Only calculators without graphing, calculus capabilities are allowed.

Calculators with graphing or calculus capabilities are not allowed even if they
are HKEAA or CUHK approved.

• Points will only be awarded for answers with sufficient justifications.

• Please submit your answer as a single pdf file to Gradescope through the course
MATH1510J in Blackboard.

• In Gradescope, for each question, please indicate exactly which page(s) its
answer locates. There will be penalties to answers of incorrectly
matched questions. You will have 24 hours to handle the question matching.
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Answer All Questions.

1. (5 points) Suppose
f (x) = 2ex 1
+1

(a) Find the inverse of f .

(b) Hence, find the range of f . Express your answer in interval notation.

2. (12 points) Evaluate the following limits. Furthermore, if the limit does not
exist but diverges to ±1, please indicate so and determine the correct sign.
|x 1|
(a) lim
x!1 x3 x
✓ ◆
sin x
(b) lim sec
x!1 x

sin2 x
(c) lim , where a is a positive real number
x!0 1 cos ax

3. (12 points) Di↵erentiate the following functions with respect to x:

(a) f (x) = x2021 (1 x)2022

2 tan x sec x
(b) f (x) = , where x 2 (0, ⇡2 )
x2 + x + 1

(c) f (x) = cos(ln(3x + sin x + ⇡))

Z 2x
(d) f (x) = t10 sin t dt
0
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4. (15 points)

(a) Find the equation of the tangent line of the curve

sin(x + y) = x3 2y

at P = (0, 0)
⇡
(b) For any real numbers a, b such that 0  a < b < , show that
2
tan b tan a b a

(c) Suppose the radius r of a circle is increasing at a constant rate a cm/s.

Find the rate of change of the area of the circle when r = 10 cm.

5. (10 points) Consider the function

p
f (x) = 10 x x2

with domain (0, 1)

(a) Find all the critical point(s) of f (x). For each critical point, determine if
it’s a local maximum, local minimum or neither.
(b) Find the global maximum and minimum values of f (x) on [1, 4].

6. (18 points) Evaluate the following integrals by the given methods.

Z
(a) x(2x + 1)1510 dx, by substitution t = 2x + 1
Z
2x + 3
(b) dx, by partial fraction decomposition.
(x + 1)2
Z
1
(c) dx, by t-substitution.
3 + cos x
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7. (24 points) Evaluate the following integrals.

Z
(a) sin3 x cos2 x dx
Z
1
(b) p dx where x > 0
4x2 + 1
Z 2
(c) | ln x| dx
1
2

Z 1
1
(d) dx
0 x2 + 2x + 2

8. (10 points) Let R be the region bounded by the curves:

C1 : y 2 = 2x + 3
C2 : y = x

(a) Sketch the graphs of C1 and C2 .

(b) Express the area of R as the integral(s) of function(s) (Do not evaluate).

9. (8 points) Let R be the region bounded by the curves:

x = 0
y = 2
p
y = x

Express the volumes of the following solids as the integrals of functions (Do
not evaluate):

(a) The solid obtained by revolving R about the x-axis.

(b) The solid obtained by revolving R about the y-axis.

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10. (15 points)

(a) Find the Taylor series T1 (x) of

1
f (x) =
1 + 2x
centered at 1 and its radius of convergence.
(b) Find the Maclaurin series T1 (x) of

f (x) = x cos(2x)

(c) Find the Maclaurin series T1 (x) of

1
f (x) =
2x2 + 3x + 1

11. (15 points) Find the second order Maclaurin polynomials T2 (x) of the following
functions.

(a) f (x) = (cos x) ln(1 + 2x)

(b) f (x) = cos(e3x 1)

sin x + 1
(c) f (x) =
x2 x + 1

12. (16 points) Let An be the average of the following n positive numbers:
✓ 2◆ ✓ 2◆ ✓ 2◆ ✓ 2◆
1 2 3 n
sin 2
, sin 2
, sin 2
, . . . , sin
n n n n2
Given that
A1 = lim An
n!1

exists, approximate the value of A1 with an error no more than 0.001.

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