Remarks in italics are by me for extra explanation. These comments would not be necessary for full marks in an exam situation. Exercises taken from p.58 of these notes.
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March 13, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Graham Kiely
Hi JP,
Just going over partial derivatives and the solution here to question 2 part 3, seems to have a Z rather than a Z squared after the first derivative w.r.t y ?
Is this a mistake or am I missing something? (the latter being most probable).
(Fyy)zz would then be -4/ y cubed or -4 y(power -3)
Should it have been Z(squared)*Y(power -2) instead of ZY(power-2) ?
Graham
[Corrected – J.P.]