Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
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Chapter 14 - Section 14.5 - The Chain Rule. - 14.5 Exercise - Page 946: 57

Answer

$f_x (tx,ty)=t^{n-1} f_x(x,y)$

Work Step by Step

The homogeneous function of order $n$ is defined as: $f(tx,ty)=t^n f(x,y)$ $\dfrac{\partial f }{\partial x} (tx,ty) (tx)'_x+\dfrac{\partial f }{\partial y} (tx,ty) (ty)'_x=(t^nf(x,y))'x$ $\dfrac{\partial f }{\partial x} (tx,ty) (t)+\dfrac{\partial f }{\partial y} (tx,ty) (0)=t^nf_x(x,y)$ This gives: $\dfrac{\partial f }{\partial x} (tx,ty) (t)+\dfrac{\partial f }{\partial y} (tx,ty) (0)=t^nf_x(x,y)$ Hence, it has been proved that $f_x (tx,ty)=t^{n-1} f_x(x,y)$
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