Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH200/April 2012/Question 05 (a)
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Question 05 (a) |
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Let be the intersection of the plane and the sphere Use Lagrange multipliers to find the maximum value of on . |
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Get the equations in this Lagrange multiplier problem by setting the partial derivatives of the objective function, , to zero, where |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. We wish to maximize the value of subject to the constraints So we use Lagrange multipliers. The objective function, , is Computing the partial derivatives of with respect to all the variables and the Lagrange multipliers and setting them equal to zero gives: To begin with, we observe that can not be zero, because if it was, then equations (1) and (2) would force , while equation (3) would force ; a contradiction. Hence, we combine equations (1) and (2) to see that the maximum of occurs on the plane : Taking this result and using (4), we find Taking these two results and using (5) we have an equation for z: Multiplying this equation by 4 and expanding all the quadratic terms we get: Solving this equation for we get Taking the larger of the two results we obtain the maximum of subject to the given constraints which is . |