Questions tagged [multivariable-calculus]

Use this tag for questions about differential and integral calculus with more than one independent variable. Some related tags are (differential-geometry), (real-analysis), and (differential-equations).

Multivariable functions are functions like $f(x,y)=xy^2$, functions that have two or more inputs but still only one output.

There exist multivariable limits, where $x$ and $y$ approach a value instead of just $x$.

In multivariable calculus, when writing $\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}x} \ f(x,y)$, one does not assume $y$ to be a constant, instead it is assumed that $y$ is a function of $x$.

To indicate that $y$ is a constant, one should use $\frac{\partial}{\partial x} f(x,y)$. These are called partial derivatives.

One also has integrals of multivariable functions. We say that we integrate over a surface in case of a two-variable function. We write this as $$\iint_S f(x,y)$$

If the surface is a rectangle $S: [a,b] \times [c,d]$, and the function is continuous on this rectangle, then Fubini's theorem says that $$\iint_S f(x,y) = \int^b_a\int^d_c f(x,y) \mathrm{d}y \mathrm{d}x$$

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How can I prove the surjectivity of the following function

$F:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2,\\ f(x,y)= ((x^3)-x),y)$ How can I check if this is surjective or not?
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Volume between cone and cylinder with a shift

I am trying to solve the following problem: Compute the volume of the solid bounded by the $ \ z \ = \ 3 \sqrt{x^2 + y^2} \ $ , the plane $ \ z = 0\ $ , and the cylinder $ \ x^2 +(y−1)^2 \ = \ 1 \ $ . I know I need to use a triple integral,…
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Injective and surjective equations

How can I prove that the following equation is both surjective and injective (thus bijective) $$F(x,y) = (x - 2 y^2 +3, y +2 x - 4)$$ ??
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Divergence Theorem and Green's first identity

Can anyone explain the underlined part in green. I know what green's identity is it's just I don't understand why we are summing over the surfaces of the holes.
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Determining a halfspace, from a pair of vectors

i have an object and a 3d direction vector and position for it . I would like to know how do i determine if a certain point X is in the space below the plan determined by my direction ? Here is an image that i have drawn to make it more clear . In…
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Curvilinear Coordiantes

I understand that if the dot product of two vectors is 0 then they are orthogonal. I'm just having a slight problem conceptualising why we use $\frac{\partial r}{\partial \xi}$ and $\frac{\partial r}{\partial \eta}$
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Show $(0,0)$ is a saddle for $x^6 - x^4 + y^6$

The determinant of the Hessian is $0$, so we can't use this method but that's the only method I can see from the textbook. How else can we show that this is a saddle point?
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Differentiable extension of an arbitrary function

I'm learning multivariate analysis from Analysis on Manifolds written by Munkres. In solving the problems, I have encountered this problem: In (a), since the support of $\phi$ is in $U$, if $\mathbf{x}\notin K:=\operatorname{supp}\phi$, $\phi(x)=0$.…
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Use Stokes' Theorem to evaluate $\mathbf{F} \cdot d \mathbf{r}$

Use Stokes' Theorem to evaluate $\mathbf{F} \cdot d \mathbf{r}$ where $\mathbf{F} =(2x+3y, 1y+5z, 9z+1x)$ and the curve is the triangle with vertices $(4,0,0), (0,6,0)$ and $(0,0,24)$ oriented so that the vertices are traversed in the specified…
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Why is my line integral wrong?

Evaluate the line integral $3xy^2dx+8x^3dy$ where $C$ is the boundary of the region between the circles $x^2+y^2=1$ and $x^2+y^2=64$ having positive orientation. Okay so I first looked at the first circle. I took $x=\cos t$ and $y=\sin t$.…
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Evaluate the line integral $\int_C \ x^2 dx+(x+y)dy \ $

Evaluate the line integral $$\int_C \ x^2 dx+(x+y)dy \ $$ where $C$ is the path of the right triangle with vertices $(0,0), (4,0)$ and $(0,10)$ starts from the origin and goes to $(4,0)$ then to $(0,10)$ then back to the origin. I did this…
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Green's theorem -- Greatest Work Done

Among all smooth, simple closed curves in the plane, oriented counterclockwise, find the one along which the work done by: $F = <\frac14x^2y + \frac13y^3, x>$ is greatest. Hint: where is curl $F \cdot k$ positive? I tried evaluating Green's…
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$\iiint_Dz \;dxdydz$ where D is $z \ge 0 , z^2 \ge 2x^2+3y^2-1,x^2+y^2+z^2\le3.$

I asked a questions about regions and then tried to compute a tripple integral: $$\iiint_Dz \;dxdydz$$ D is $z \ge 0 , z^2 \ge 2x^2+3y^2-1,x^2+y^2+z^2\le3.$ I tried, but now I am stuck: how do I calculate the volume of $D_{1b}$? Since I don't have…
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A Trignometric equation and the inverse function theorem

Let $f:]0,\infty[ \times \mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^3$ defined by $f(r,\theta,z)=(r \cos(\theta), r \sin(\theta),z)$. By the inverse function theorem, we know that for each point there is a neighbourhood, on which a local inverse is defined.…
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Proving a derivative of a function $f(x,y,z)$ depends only on $u$

Let $f(x,y,z)\in C^2 (\mathbb{R}^3 ) $ and assume that there exist a function $g:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ for which $g(u)=f(x,y,z)$ where $u=x^2 + y^2 + z^2 $ . Prove that $f_{xx} + f_{yy} + f_{zz} $ depends only on $u$ . I have no idea how to…