course |
course_year |
question_number |
tags |
title |
year |
Methods |
IB |
49 |
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Paper 4, Section I, A |
2010 |
(a) By considering strictly monotonic differentiable functions $\varphi(x)$, such that the zeros satisfy $\varphi(c)=0$ but $\varphi^{\prime}(c) \neq 0$, establish the formula
$$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x) \delta(\varphi(x)) d x=\frac{f(c)}{\left|\varphi^{\prime}(c)\right|}$$
Hence show that for a general differentiable function with only such zeros, labelled by $c$,
$$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x) \delta(\varphi(x)) d x=\sum_{c} \frac{f(c)}{\left|\varphi^{\prime}(c)\right|}$$
(b) Hence by changing to plane polar coordinates, or otherwise, evaluate,
$$I=\int_{0}^{\infty} \int_{0}^{\infty}\left(x^{3}+y^{2} x\right) \delta\left(x^{2}+y^{2}-1\right) d y d x$$