009C Sample Final 2

This is a sample, and is meant to represent the material usually covered in Math 9C for the final. An actual test may or may not be similar.

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 Problem 1 

Test if the following sequences converge or diverge. Also find the limit of each convergent sequence.

(a)  $a_{n}={\frac {\ln(n)}{\ln(n+1)}}$

(b)  $a_{n}={\bigg (}{\frac {n}{n+1}}{\bigg )}^{n}$

 Problem 2 

For each of the following series, find the sum if it converges. If it diverges, explain why.

(a)  $4-2+1-{\frac {1}{2}}+{\frac {1}{4}}-{\frac {1}{8}}+\cdots$

(b)  $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{(2n-1)(2n+1)}}$

 Problem 3 

Determine if the following series converges or diverges. Please give your reason(s).

(a)  $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {n!}{(2n)!}}$

(b)  $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}{\frac {1}{n+1}}$

 Problem 4 

(a) Find the radius of convergence for the power series

$\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}{\frac {x^{n}}{n}}.$

(b) Find the interval of convergence of the above series.

 Problem 5 

Find the Taylor Polynomials of order 0, 1, 2, 3 generated by  $f(x)=\cos(x)$  at  $x={\frac {\pi }{4}}.$

 Problem 6 

(a) Express the indefinite integral  $\int \sin(x^{2})~dx$  as a power series.

(b) Express the definite integral  $\int _{0}^{1}\sin(x^{2})~dx$  as a number series.

 Problem 7 

(a) Consider the function  $f(x)={\bigg (}1-{\frac {1}{2}}x{\bigg )}^{-2}.$  Find the first three terms of its Binomial Series.

(b) Find its radius of convergence.

 Problem 8 

Find  $n$  such that the Maclaurin polynomial of degree  $n$  of  $f(x)=\cos(x)$  approximates  $\cos {\bigg (}{\frac {\pi }{3}}{\bigg )}$  within 0.0001 of the actual value.

 Problem 9 

A curve is given in polar coordinates by

$r=\sin(2\theta ).$

(a) Sketch the curve.

(b) Compute  $y'={\frac {dy}{dx}}.$

(c) Compute  $y''={\frac {d^{2}y}{dx^{2}}}.$

 Problem 10 

Find the length of the curve given by

$x=t^{2}$

$y=t^{3}$

$1\leq t\leq 2$