Thursday, May 5, 2016

calculus - Confused about differentiability/continuity/partial derivative existence

Ok, so in my notes it says




Prop 1: If a function is differentiable, it will be continuous AND it will also have partial derivatives.



Prop 2: If a function is continuous, or has partial derivatives, or has both, it does not guarantee the function is differentiable.



And the example to follow for prop 2 is:
f(x,y)=y3x2+y2 if (x,y)(0,0)



f(x,y)=0 if (x,y)=(0,0)



fx(0,0)=0




fy(0,0)=1 (how????)



The function is also continuous at (0,0) since lim (using squeeze theorem)



So it says the partial derivatives exist.



My first question is, why is f_y(0,0)=1? shouldn't it be 0? Not that it makes a difference. The partials will exist regardless.



My second question is, it says that this function is not differentiable. How do they know that?




My third question: It says in the calculus textbook, one of the theorems (theorem 8 of chapter 14.4 for stewert's book): If the partial derivatives f_x and f_y exist near (a,b) and are continuous at (a,b) then f is differentiable at (a,b). How does this make sense? The example in my notes just said a function can be continuous and have partials, but still not be differentiable

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