Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
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Chapter 14 - Section 14.3 - Partial Derivatives - 14.3 Exercise - Page 925: 43

Answer

$\frac{1}{6}$

Work Step by Step

We can change the question into a simpler form by the property of logarithm $f(x, y, z)=\ln\biggl(\frac{1-\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}}{1+\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}}\biggr)=\ln(1-\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2})-\ln (1+\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2})$ $f_y=\frac{\frac{-y}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}}}{1-\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}}-\frac{\frac{y}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}}}{1+\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}}$ Then $f_y(1, 2, 2)=\frac{-\frac{2}{3}}{1-3}-\frac{\frac{2}{3}}{1+3}=\frac{1}{6}$
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