JEE Main & Advanced Mathematics Differentiation Question Bank Partial Differentiation

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    If \[{{u}^{2}}={{(x-a)}^{2}}+{{(y-b)}^{2}}+{{(z-c)}^{2}}\], then \[\sum \frac{{{\partial }^{2}}u}{\partial {{x}^{2}}}=\]                    [Tamilnadu (Engg.) 2002]

    A)            \[\frac{2}{u}\]

    B)            \[\frac{3}{u}\]

    C)            0

    D)            \[\frac{1}{u}\]

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

                       \[2u\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}=2(x-a)\]             Þ\[u\,\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}=x-a\] Þ \[u.\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}u}{\partial {{x}^{2}}}+{{\left( \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} \right)}^{2}}=1\]                    Þ \[u.\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}u}{\partial {{x}^{2}}}=1-{{\left( \frac{x-a}{u} \right)}^{2}}\]Þ \[\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}u}{\partial {{x}^{2}}}=\frac{1}{u}-\frac{{{(x-a)}^{2}}}{{{u}^{3}}}\]                    Similarly, \[\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}u}{\partial {{y}^{2}}}=\frac{1}{u}-\frac{{{(y-b)}^{2}}}{{{u}^{3}}}\], \[\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}u}{\partial {{z}^{2}}}=\frac{1}{u}-\frac{{{(z-b)}^{2}}}{{{u}^{3}}}\]                    \[\therefore \] \[\sum \,\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}u}{\partial {{x}^{2}}}=\frac{3}{u}-\frac{1}{{{u}^{3}}}[{{(x-a)}^{2}}+{{(y-b)}^{2}}+{{(z-c)}^{2}}]\]                                    = \[\frac{3}{u}-\frac{1}{{{u}^{3}}}.({{u}^{2}})=\frac{3}{u}-\frac{1}{u}=\frac{2}{u}\].


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