Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Single Variable Calculus
Tutorial Sheet-4
July-November 2025
1. Examine whether the following series are convergent.
∞
nn
P
(a) 2n2
n=1
∞
P n n 2
(b) ( n+1 )
n=1
∞ √
n+1
(−1)n+1
P
(c) n+1
n=1
∞
1
P
2. Examine whether the series 1+ 1 is convergent.
n=1 n n
3. Examine whether the following series are convergent.
∞
n!
P
(a) nn
n=1
∞
1
sin n1
P
(b) n
n=1
∞ ∞
xn
P P
4. Let xn > 0 for all n ∈ N. Show that the series xn converges iff the series 1+xn
n=1 n=1
converges.
∞
1
P
5. Examine whether the series (log n)log n
is convergent.
n=2
6. Examine whether the following series are conditionally convergent.
∞ √
(−1)n ( n2 + 1 − n)
P
(a)
n=1
∞
P (−1)n
(b) n2 +(−1)n
n=2
∞ 2
(−1)n a n+n
P
(c) 2 , where a ∈ R
n=1
∞
P (−1)n (x−1)n
7. Find all x ∈ R for which the series 2n n2
converges.
n=1
∞
an
P
8. Show that the series an +n
is convergent if 0 < a < 1 and is not convergent if
n=1
a > 1.
∞
(−1)n sin( αn ) is conditionally convergent.
P
9. If α (̸= 0) ∈ R, then show that the series
n=1
∞
(−1)n+1 n1p is convergent iff p > 0.
P
10. For p ∈ R, the series
n=1
11. (Rearrangement of series). If 1 − 21 + 1
3
− 1
4
+ 1
5
− 1
6
+ · · · = s, then prove that
1 + 13 − 12 + 15 + 17 − 14 + 19 + · · · = 23 s.
