Apply the Leibniz integral rule, including both moving boundaries and the explicit parameter in the integrand. The upper bound has derivative , the lower bound has derivative , and the integrand has partial derivative with respect to . ThereforeThe formula remains valid when the bounds coincide or occur in reversed order, by the oriented definite integral convention. The integrand and its partial derivative are continuous on every finite integration interval.
With , integrating givesThe other two partial derivatives require . The origin condition fixes the remaining constant to zero. Hence the scalar potential isIts value at gives , so
A stationary point has zero gradient. The two partial derivatives giveSolving this system of linear equations gives
Put . The gradient components areA stationary point requires both components to vanish. If , then ; the second component subsequently forces , giving . If , either or, writing ,Only is nonnegative. Thus there are five stationary points, with valuesThe cases and exhaust the first partial derivative equation, so no other stationary points have been lost by division.
In the Cartesian coordinate system, the Laplacian of a scalar field is the sum of its three unmixed second partial derivatives. Each squared coordinate here contributes one, soEquivalently and its divergence is three.
Apply the Leibniz integral rule: differentiate both moving endpoints and the integrand's explicit dependence. The partial derivative is . HenceThe signs distinguish upper and lower endpoint contributions. The formula also holds when the limits occur in reversed order, by the oriented-integral convention. If , the integral defining is identically zero and all displayed terms cancel, so
Set . The quotient rule gives the partial derivativesSince , the first equation forces . The second then reduces to . Thus the only stationary points and their field values areNo division by a potentially vanishing factor of was used, so no stationary points have been discarded.
For , integrate with respect to to obtainIts other partial derivative is . Comparing with gives . Thus the most general potential on the plane is
For , the needed partial derivatives areSubstituting these into part (ii) givesSince , the last two terms combine. Thus
Apply the product rule and the chain rule once more to each expression in part (i). The second derivative chain rule givesandFor example, the coefficient of in the mixed partial derivative is , while the final term is . The symmetry is used in combining the mixed terms under the usual twice-continuously-differentiable interpretation.
The chain rule gives and . Since , , and , the answer isEvery partial derivative of on the right is evaluated at , .
First express the function in the original variables:The chain rule givesTaking its partial derivative with respect to yieldsThe numerator in the second fraction reduces to , reproducingBoth logarithms are defined for every real because their arguments are at least one.
First and . Differentiating again gives the four second-order partial derivatives:The two mixed partial derivatives agree, as expected for this smooth polynomial.
For an exact differential form, equality of the mixed partial derivatives requires . HereEquality for all and real forces , so . To construct the potential, integrate with respect to :Differentiation with respect to gives , so . Thus the most general potential on the connected domain isIts explicit partial derivatives verify sufficiency as well as necessity.
Let . The product rule and the chain rule give the partial derivativesHence the terms containing cancel:This also follows from the Euler theorem for homogeneous functions, because for .
The chain rule expresses the coordinate differential operators asThe coefficients are constant, so a second application givesandAdding cancels the mixed partial derivatives, and givesThe transformation has rotation matrix , so this identity expresses the rotational invariance of the Laplacian.
For , the separated equations areOn a region containing the prescribed points, take and . Integration givesThe two specified values, verified in the original PDF, giveDividing these relations eliminates :The right-hand side is the square of the positive base on the left, which differs from one. Thus , and either original condition gives . ThereforeIts partial derivatives satisfy and , verifying the equation wherever its coefficients are defined. Substitution at the two assigned points gives and exactly. The formula extends to any region where and .
Let and . An exact differential form must satisfy . These partial derivatives giveTaking antiderivatives produces . A convenient nonzero integrating factor for a differential one-form is thereforeAn explicit potential, which also proves global exactness, isIndeed and for the chosen integrating factor.
The scaling relation says that is a homogeneous function of degree . Fix and differentiate the identity with respect to the positive parameter . The chain rule givesSetting proves the Euler theorem for homogeneous functions identityDifferentiate once more with respect to , using equality of the mixed partial derivatives for the assumed twice continuously differentiable function:At this is the second-order Euler identity for homogeneous functions:The repeated parameter differentiation accounts for the factor , rather than .