다변수 연쇄법칙

(a) By the product and chain rules

$$\begin{aligned} w_x(x,y) &= \frac{\partial }{\partial x}\big[e^{-y}f(x-y)\big] = e^{-y} \frac{\partial }{\partial x}\big[f(x-y)\big] = e^{-y} f'(x-y)\frac{\partial }{\partial x}(x-y) \\ &= e^{-y}f'(x-y) \\% w_y(x,y) &= \frac{\partial }{\partial y}\big[e^{-y}f(x-y)\big] = -e^{-y}f(x-y) + e^{-y} \frac{\partial }{\partial y}\big[f(x-y)\big] \\ &= -e^{-y}f(x-y) + e^{-y} f'(x-y)\frac{\partial }{\partial y}(x-y) \\ &= -e^{-y}f(x-y)-e^{-y}f'(x-y) \end{aligned}$$

Hence

$$w+\frac{\partial w}{\partial x}+\frac{\partial w}{\partial y} =e^{-y}f(x-y)+e^{-y}f'(x-y)-e^{-y}f(x-y)-e^{-y}f'(x-y) =0$$

as desired.

(b) Think of $x=u^3-3uv^2$, $y=3u^2v-v^3$ as two equations in the two unknowns $u$, $v$ with $x$, $y$ just being given parameters. The question implicitly tells us that those two equations can be solved for $u$, $v$ in terms of $x$, $y$, at least near $(u,v)=(2,1)$, $(x,y)=(2,11)$. That is, the question implicitly tells us that the functions $u(x,y)$ and $v(x,y)$ are determined by

$$x=u(x,y)^3-3u(x,y)\,v(x,y)^2\qquad y=3u(x,y)^2v(x,y)-v(x,y)^3$$

Applying $\frac{\partial }{\partial x}$ to both sides of the equation $x=u(x,y)^3-3u(x,y)v(x,y)^2$ gives

$$\begin{aligned} 1&=3\,u(x,y)^2\,\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(x,y) -3\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(x,y)\,v(x,y)^2 -6\,u(x,y)\,v(x,y)\,\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(x,y) \\[0.05in] \end{aligned}$$

Then applying $\frac{\partial }{\partial x}$ to both sides of $y=3u(x,y)^2v(x,y)-v(x,y)^3$ gives

$$\begin{aligned} 0&=6\,u(x,y)\,\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(x,y)\,v(x,y) +3\,u(x,y)^2\,\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(x,y) -3\,v(x,y)^2\,\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(x,y) \end{aligned}$$

Substituting in $x=2$, $y=11$, $u=2$, $v=1$ gives

$$\begin{aligned} 1&=12\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11) -3\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11) -12\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(2,11) &&=9\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11) -12\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(2,11)\\[0.05in] 0&=12\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11) +12\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(2,11) -3\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(2,11) &&=12\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11) +9\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(2,11) \end{aligned}$$

From the second equation $\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(2,11) =-\frac{4}{3}\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11)$. Substituting into the first equation gives

$$1=9\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11) -12\left[-\frac{4}{3}\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11)\right] = 25\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11)$$

so that $\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11)=\frac{1}{25}$ and $\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(2,11)=-\frac{4}{75}$. The question also tells us that $z(x,y)=u(x,y)^2-v(x,y)^2$. Hence

$$\begin{aligned} &\frac{\partial z}{\partial x}(x,y) =2u(x,y)\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(x,y) -2v(x,y)\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(x,y)\\ \implies & \frac{\partial z}{\partial x}(2,11) =4\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(2,11) -2\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}(2,11) =4\frac{1}{25}+2\frac{4}{75}=\frac{20}{75} =\frac{4}{15} \end{aligned}$$