It is given that .
- (a)
Show that . Hence find the Maclaurin series for , up to and including the term in .
- (b)
Given further that is small so that and higher powers of can be neglected, use appropriate expansions from the List of Formulae (MF26) to verify the correctness of the series of in part (a).
- (c)
Use the series expansion found in part (a) and integration to find an approximate value for .
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8(a)
1. Rewrite the equation to avoid fractions and find the first derivative implicitly with respect to $x$.
Differentiating with respect to using the product rule:
2. Differentiate a second time to show the required differential equation.
Differentiating implicitly again with respect to :
Since , we can substitute :
Multiplying the entire equation by gives the required result:
3. Evaluate $y$, $\dfrac{\mathrm{d}y}{\mathrm{d}x}$, and $\dfrac{\mathrm{d}^2y}{\mathrm{d}x^2}$ at $x = 0$.
When :
Substituting into the first derivative equation:
Substituting into the second derivative equation:
4. Construct the Maclaurin series for $y$ up to the $x^2$ term.
Using the Maclaurin series formula :
8(b)
1. Substitute the standard series expansion for $\sin 2x$.
From the List of Formulae (MF26), the standard series expansion for is
Since and higher powers of can be neglected, .
Therefore,
2. Rewrite the expression into a form suitable for the binomial series expansion.
Factoring out the constant to get the form :
3. Apply the binomial series expansion $(1+u)^n$ up to the term in $u^2$.
From MF26, the binomial expansion for any rational index is
Applying this with and :
4. Simplify the expansion to verify the series from part (a).
This matches and verifies the correctness of the Maclaurin series obtained in part (a).
\frac{1}{3} - \frac{2}{9}x + \frac{4}{27}x^2
8(c)
1. Substitute the Maclaurin series for $y$ from part (a) into the definite integral.
From part (a), we have the expansion .
2. Integrate the polynomial and evaluate at the limits $0$ and $1.5$.
Using :
\frac{5}{12}
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