Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 4 22I c ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
The preceding estimate makes equicontinuous, andmakes it uniformly bounded. The Arzela-Ascoli theorem therefore supplies a subsequence converging uniformly to a continuous function . On every mesh interval,including an endpoint by using the adjacent interval. Consequently uniformly along the same subsequence.
All and lie in one compact ball. The restriction of the continuous vector field to that ball is uniformly continuous, so uniformly. Passing to the limit in the defining equation givesThe fundamental theorem of calculus now makes differentiable and yields . This proves the required special case of the Peano existence theorem; uniqueness need not hold because was assumed continuous but not locally Lipschitz continuous.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ib Paper 4 10F a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Fix and a coordinate direction . The fundamental theorem of calculus givesFor sufficiently small , the points lie in a fixed compact set. The continuity of makes it uniformly continuous there, so the right-hand side converges to uniformly in . We may consequently pass the limit through the finite integral:
To prove continuity, if , joint continuity makes uniformly for once the lie in a compact neighbourhood of . Hence . This proves the stated differentiation under the integral sign result and the continuity of every partial derivative.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ib Paper 4 4C Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The one-dimensional Time-dependent Schrodinger equation for a wavefunction in a real potential isMultiplying this equation by , multiplying its complex conjugate by , and subtracting gives the probability continuity equationIf and its first derivative decay sufficiently rapidly as , then the probability current vanishes at both ends. Integrating the continuity equation and using the fundamental theorem of calculus yieldsThis conservation of quantum probability is required by the Born rule: once a normalizable wavefunction has total probability one, its time evolution must preserve that normalization.
For the stated Gaussian wave packet, put . Sinceits squared modulus isThe Gaussian integral then giveswhich is independent of time, as required.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 115 2 d Solution Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-03
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 352 1 e Solution 2026-09-29
The volumetric flow rate is . Integration by parts, using finite and , givesBecause the stress magnitude is , change variables from to :Therefore the required power is . The fundamental theorem of calculus gives the pipe form of the Weissenberg–Rabinowitsch equation:Finally , soA measured pressure-drop--flow-rate curve therefore recovers the wall viscosity without assuming a constitutive form.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 ia Paper 1 12D Solution Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
It is enough to treat an increasing function; replacing by handles a decreasing one. Let be the common refinement of dissections and . Refinement raises lower Darboux sums and lowers upper ones, so
For the uniform dissection , monotonicity gives the telescoping differenceThis can be made smaller than any , so the Riemann integrability criterion proves that is integrable.
The integral lies between the lower and upper sums, and the displayed sum in the question is the right-endpoint upper sum. Hence the generally valid sharp estimate isThe strict inequality printed in the question is false for arbitrary monotone functions: if for and , the two sides of (1) are both .
For the final claim, writeSince is continuous on a compact interval, it is uniformly continuous. Uniformly for ,After the substitution , summing the uniform errors givesThe right-hand sum is a Riemann integral, so the fundamental theorem of calculus yields
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 115 2 a Solution 2026-09-28
Give the outward-normal-first boundary orientation. The Generalized Stokes theorem states that, for every compactly supported -form ,
Choose an oriented coordinate cover by charts into or the half-space , and choose a partition of unity subordinate to it. Since the family is locally finite and has compact support, only finitely many are nonzero. It is therefore legitimate to write both integrals as finite sums and prove the identity for a form supported in one chart.
In an interior chart the integral of an exact compactly supported top form is zero by the fundamental theorem of calculus. In a boundary chart writeIntegrating coordinate by coordinate kills every tangential derivative. The normal derivative leaves precisely the restriction to , with the sign selected by the outward-normal-first convention. This is , proving the theorem.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 202 5 b Solution Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-03
Since , the fundamental theorem of calculus givesApplying the Itô formula before the lifetime, the two drift terms cancel:Thus is a continuous local martingale. The increasing function is the scale function of a one-dimensional diffusion.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 23F c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Compact support and the fundamental theorem of calculus give, for every ,whereApplying the same argument in the other coordinate gives
Multiplication and Fubini's theorem now yieldFinally, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality givesThus the required estimate holds with ; it is the Ladyzhenskaya inequality in two dimensions.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 4 15D Solution Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
A transformation of phase space is canonical when it preserves the symplectic form, or equivalently all Poisson brackets. For one degree of freedom this isequivalently .
Suppose a type-two generating function for a canonical transformation definesThenEquality of the mixed partial derivatives gives , so the transformation is canonical wherever it is locally invertible.
Forthe fundamental theorem of calculus and differentiation under the integral sign giveThusand in particular .
For the unit-frequency simple harmonic motion, the transformed Hamiltonian is simply . Hamilton's equations becomeThereforeand transformation back gives the familiar solution
Now consider the weak quartic oscillatorChoose the modified generating functionIt givesso the transformed Hamiltonian is again . Hence and . Expanding the square root with the Taylor series givesDifferentiation with respect to therefore yieldswhere
Set andWriting and expanding the inverse sine relation at givesExpanding similarly givesConsequentlySince , this is the required expression. The formula is understood away from turning points where and the ratio itself is singular.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 ib Paper 2 2G iv Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The fundamental theorem of calculus givesThus . Uniform continuity of makes the difference from uniformly small over every interval of radius , so convergence is uniform on all of .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 105 2 e Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For a smooth and fixed , the fundamental theorem of calculus gives, for ,Average this inequality over , use Holder inequality on that unit interval, raise to the power , and integrate in . This proves the estimate behind the W1p trace theorem on a half-space:Use the Sobolev extension operator from part d, approximate in by smooth functions, and define as the limit of their restrictions to . The trace inequality makes this limit independent of the approximation and proves thatis linear and bounded. For a smooth function that extends continuously to the boundary, , so this is the trace operator required.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 318 2 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Twice applying the fundamental theorem of calculus giveshence . Part (b) gives . This cannot be little- for every function: for ,
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 202 3 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
If is continuously differentiable, then for every finite partition the fundamental theorem of calculus and the triangle inequality givePart (b) therefore implies .
Second-difference integral formula 2026-10-06
For a twice continuously differentiable function and , the fundamental theorem of calculus givesThe nonnegative triangular weight has integral , so its supremum norm estimate directly controls the second modulus of smoothness.
Sobolev–Gallagher inequality 2026-10-06
For a continuously differentiable function on an interval ,To prove it, average over using the fundamental theorem of calculus. On either half of , the resulting derivative kernel has absolute value at most . Since , the displayed bound follows.
If finite nonnegative entropy decreases, its limit exists. The fundamental theorem of calculus applied to proves the displayed absolute-integrability identity. This product conclusion does not require a zero limiting entropy.
If continuously differentiable functions have uniformly convergent derivatives on an interval and their values converge at one point, the functions converge locally uniformly to a continuously differentiable limit whose derivative is the derivative limit. The proof integrates from the anchored point using the fundamental theorem of calculus. Uniform convergence of the functions on the entire interval follows when the interval is bounded; it need not follow on an unbounded interval.
W1p trace theorem on a half-space Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
For , boundary restriction on smooth functions extends uniquely to a bounded linear map . The estimate follows by applying the fundamental theorem of calculus on normal line segments and then integrating over the boundary variables.