Given the function $f(x,y) = \int^x_y g(t) dt $, $g(t)$ continuous for all $t$.
How to evaluate the partial derivatives of $f$ ?
It is correct to do like this (by FTC) ?:
$f_x$ = $g(x)x'$.
$f_y = g(y)y'$.
Thanks!!!
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$\begingroup$Let $a $ be a real. then
$$f (x,y)=\int_a^x g (t)dt-\int_a^y g (t)dt $$
$$=G (x)-G (y) $$ with $$G(X)=\int_a^X g (t)dt $$ and $$G'(X)=g (X) $$ since $g $ is continuous at $\mathbb R $.
thus
$$f_x (x,y)=G'(x)=g (x) $$ $$f_y (x,y)=-G'(y)=-g (y) $$
$\endgroup$ $\begingroup$"Leibniz's formula" is a generalization of the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus": $$\frac{d}{dx}\int_{\alpha(x)}^{\beta(x)} f(x, t)dt= f(x, \beta(x))- f(x, \alpha(x))+ \int_{\alpha(x)}^{\beta(x)} \frac{\partial f(x, t)}{\partial x} dt$$
Here, $f(x,t)$ is a function of t only, the upper bound on the integral is just $x$ and the lower bound just $y$. So the derivative of the integral with respect to $x$ is $g(x)$ and the derivative with respect to y is $-g(y)$.
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