Fac Faculty of Engineering-Preparatory Year

Module Title: Calculus 2

Sheet No.: 3
Title: Taylor expansion.
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Problem 1:

Find the Maclaurin expansion of the following functions ( at x = 0 )

1
(1) f (x ) = e 3x (2) f (x ) =
1 + 3x

Problem 2:

Find the Taylor expansion of f ( x ) = ln x at x = 1 and use this expansion to

approximate the value of ln(1.3)

Problem 3:

Find the Taylor expansion of f ( x ) = sin x at x = 0 and use this expansion to

1
sin x
approximate the value of ∫
0
x
dx

Problem 4:

Show that the Taylor expansion of f ( x ) = cos x at x = 0 is given by

x2 x4 x6
cos x = 1 − + − + ... and use this expansion to approximate the value of
2! 3! 6!

2π
(1) cos( )
9
1

∫ cos(x
2
(2) ) dx
0