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ADVANCED ENGINNERING MATHEMATICS
UNIT I
LAPLACE TRANSFORMS
PART- A
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Define Laplace transform.

Find the Laplace transform of the function F(t) = 1.
Find L[eat].
Find L[sin at]
Find L[cos hat]
State first and second shifting theorem.
Find L[et sin2t]
Obtain the Laplace transform of sinh3t using change of scale of property.
Evaluate L-1[(3p-2)/(p2-4p+20)]
Define heat equation.
PART B

11. A semi infinite solid x>0 is initially at temperature zero. At time t>0,a constant temperature V 0>0
is applied and maintained at the face x=0. Find the temperature at any point of the solid at any
time t>0.
12. The initial temperature of a slab of homogeneous maintained bounded by the planes x=0 and x=l
is u0. Find the temperature in this solid after the face x=0 is insulated and the temperature of face
x=l is reduced to zero.

13. Solve the boundary value problem

u 2 u

t t 2

, (0<x<l) ,t>0) subject to the conditions u(x,0) =0,

(0<x<1) and u(0,t) = 0, u(1,t) =F(t),(t>0).

14. The semi infinite solid x<0 has thermal diffusivity , k1 and conductivity K1. It is contact along
the plane x=0 with the semi infinite solid x>0 in which these quantities k2,K2 if the initial
temperature of the first solid is constant V0 and that of the second solid is zero. Show that the

K 2 k1
V0
x

erfc
.
where
1
K1 k 2
2 (k 2 t )
15. A beam which is hinged at its ends x=0 and x=l carries a uniform load w 0 per unit length. Find the
deflection at any point.
16. A beam which is clamped at its ends x=0 and x=l carries a uniform load w 0 per unit length. Show

temperature at time t in the second solid is

that the deflection at any point is y(x) =

W0 x 2 (l x) 2
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UNIT II
FOURIER TRANSFORMS
PART- A
1.
2.
3.
4.

Find Fourier cosine transform of e-x

If F(S) is the Fourier transform of f(x) Then find Fourier transform of f(x-a).
Find the Fourier Sine transform of e-ax, a>0.
Find the Fourier Cosine transform of x.

5. Find Fourier Cosine transform of f(t)=

6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Find Fourier Sine transfom of x.

Define Fourier transform.
Define Fourier transform pair.
Define Fourier Cosine transform.
Define Fourier Sine transform.

t, o t

0, t

PART- B
11. Solve

u 2 u
, x>0, t>0, subject to the conditions (i) u=o when x=0 ,t>0 (ii)

t
x 2

When t=o and u(x,t) is bounded.

12. Solve

1,0 x 1

0, x 1

u
2u
2 2 if u(0,t)=0. U(x,0)= e-x, x>0, u(x,t) is bounded when x>0, t>0.
t
x

13. Use the complex form of Fourier transform to show that V=

1
2 t

(x )
du.
4t

f (u ) exp

v v

, x , t 0 ,V=f(x) when t=0.

t x 2
2

Is the solution of the boundary value problem

14. If the flow of heat is liner so that the variation of with z and y may be neglected and if it is
assumed that no heat is generated in the medium, then solve the differential equation

2
k 2 , x (one dimensional heat equation) where and =f(x) when t=o being a
t
x
given function of x.
4v 2v

0, x , y 0 satisfying the condition (i) V and its partial derivative

15. Solve
x 4 y 2
tend to zero as x x and (ii) V= f(x),

v
=0 on y=0.
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16. Show that the solution of Laplace equation for V inside the semi infinite strip x>0, 0<y<b such that
V= f(x), When y=0, 0<x<. V=0 , when y=b, 0<x<.V=0 when x=0, 0<y<b is given by
v

f (u ) du
0

sinh(b y ) P
sin xp sin updp
sinh pb

UNIT- III
PROBABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION
PART- A
1. Define mathematical definition of probability.
2. A bag contains 6 red and 7 black balls. Find the probability of drawing a red ball.
3. A coin is flipped twice. What is the probability of getting at least one head.
4. Find the binomial distribution for which mean is 4 and variance is 3.
5. Define Poisson distribution with mean and variance.
6. Write the application of Poisson distribution.
7. Define exponential distribution.
8. Suppose that duration X (in minutes) of long distance calls from your home follows an exponential law

1 5x
e
with p.d.f f(x) = 5
, x 0 .Find P (0x6)
0, x 0

9. State the properties of normal distribution.

10. A normal distribution has mean

20

S .D

10 find P (15 X 40)

PART-B (16 Marks)

11a) (i) In a bolt factory machines A,B and C manufacture respectively 25%,35% and 40% of the total
.Out of output 5%,4% and 2% are defective bolt . A bolt is drawn at random from the product is found to
be defective. What are the probabilities that it was manufactured by machines A, B and C.?
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(ii) The first bag contains 3 white balls, 2 red balls and 4 black balls. Second bag contains 2 white 3red
and 5 black balls and third bag contains 3 white 4red and 2 black balls. One bag is chosen at random and
from it three3 balls are drawn. Out of these 3 balls 2balls are white and 1 red. What are the probabilities
that they were taken from the first bag second bag and third bag.
(8)

12a) i) A random variable X has the following probability function.

x:
the

P( x) a

1
3a

2
5a

3
7a

9a

11a

6
13a

7
15a

(10)

8
17a

(1) Determine
value of a
(2) P ( X 4) ,
P ( X 3), P (0 X 6)

(1) Determine the value of a

(2) P( X 4) , P ( X 3), P (0 X 6)
2

(ii) Find the value of c if f(x)= c(x-x ), 0<x<1.

13a)(i) Find the probability that in tossing a fair coin 5 times , there will appear
(a)exactly 3 heads (b) 4 tails and 1 heads (c) at least 2 heads.

(6)

(8)

(ii) A machine manufacturing screws is known to produce 5% defective. In a random sample of 15

screws, what is the probability that there are
a) Exactly 3 defectives

(b) not more than 3 defectives.

(8)

14. a)(i) The number of monthly breakdown of a computer is a r.v having a Poisson distribution with
mean equal to 1.8. Find the probability that this computer will function for a month

(a) Without a breakdown

(b) With only two breakdowns and
(c) With at least one breakdown.

(8)

(ii) The atoms of radioactive elements are randomly disintegrating. If every gram of this element
on average emits 3.9 alpha particles emitted per second. What is the probability that during next
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a) At most 6
b) At least 2
c) At least 3 and at most 6

(8)

15a)(i)The amount of time that a watch will run without having to be reset is a r.v having an exponential
distribution with mean 120 days. Find the probability that such a watch will
(a) have to be reset in less than 24 days and
(b) not have to be reset in at least 180 days

(8)

(ii) The mileage which car owners get certain kind of radial tyre is a random variable having an
exponential distribution with mean 4000 km. Find the probability that one of these tyres will
last
a) At least 2000km.
b) At most 3000km.
(8)

16 a ) (i) The weekly wages of 1000 workmen are normally distributed around a mean of Rs 50. With a
S.D of Rs 7. Estimate the number of workers whose weekly wages will be
(a) Between Rs 40 and Rs 72.

(b) Less than Rs 69

(c) More than Rs 72.

(8)

(ii) The savings bank account of a customer showed an average balance of Rs 150 and a S.D of
Rs 50. Assuming that the account balance are normally distributed
(a) What percentage of account is over Rs 200?
(b) What percentage of account is between Rs 120 and Rs 170?
(c) What percentage of account is less than Rs .75?

Unit-IV
Testing of hypothesis
Part A

1. Define the terms Parameter and Statistic.

2. Explain type I & type II errors.
3. Write a note on sampling distributions.
4. Explain the terms Null hypothesis & Alternative Hypothesis.

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t test.
6. Give the 95% confidence limits of the for large sample.
5. State any two test of significance of
7. Define the term standard error.
8. Define Critical Values.
9. Define one tailed and two tailed tests.
10. Write two applications of 2 - test.

Part B

11. Random Samples are drawn from two countries gave the following data relating to the heights of
adults males.
Country A

Country B

Mean height (in inches)

67.42

67.25

S.D

2.58

2.50

No. of Samples

1000

1200

(i) Is the difference between the means significant?

(ii) Is the difference between the S.Ds significant?

(16)

12. Two sender samples gave the following result

Sample

Size

Sample mean

Sum of the squares of deviation from mean

10

15

90

II

12

14

108

Test whether the samples could have come from the same normal population.

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13. In a certain experiment to compare too types of pigfood A and A, the following results of
increases in weights were observed in Pigs.
(16)
Pig Number

Total

Increase in Food A

49

53

51

52

47

50

52

53

407

Increase in Food B

52

55

52

53

50

54

54

53

423

(i) Assuming that two sample of pigs are independent can we conclude that food B. Is better
than food A.
(ii) Also examine the case when the same set of eight pigs was used in both the food.
14. (a) Two sets of 100 students each were taught to read by two different methods. After the
instructions
were
over
a
leading
test
given
to
them
reveal

x1 73.4, x 2 70.3, s1 8 and s 2 10 . Test the hypothesis that 1 2 .

(8)

(b) Two samples are drawn from the two normal populations from the following data. Test
whether the two samples have same variance at 5% level.
(8)

Sample I

60

65

71

74

76

82

85

87

Sample II

61

66

67

85

78

63

85

86

88

91

15. (a) A sample of 900 members has a mean 34 cms and S.D 2.600. Is this sample from a large
population of mean 3.25 cm & S.D 2.61 cm? If the population is normal and its mean is
unknown find 95% and 98% confidential limit of the true mean.
(8)
(b) In an investigation into health and nutrition of two groups of children of different social
statue the following are got

Social status
Health

Poor

Rich

Total

130

20

150

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Below
Normal
Normal

102

108

210

Above Normal

24

96

120

Total

256

224

480

Discuss the relation between the health & social status.

(8)

16. (a) A certain pesticide is packed into bars by a machine. A random sample of 10 bars is drawn
and their contents are found to weigh (in kgs) as follows. 50, 45, 49, 52, 44, 48, 46, 45, 49, 45.
Test if the average packing can be 50 kg (10.05 = 2.262 for degrees of freedom 9).
(8)
(b) 200 digits were chosen at random from a set of tables the frequency of digits were

Digits

Frequency 18

19

23

21

16

25

22

20

21

15

Using Chi square test, find the digit were distributed in equal number in the tables. (8)
Unit V
Theory of Estimation

Part A
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

What are the characteristics of a good estimator?

Define an unbiased estimator.
Describe the method of maximum likelihood examination.
Define the method of moments.
Define point estimator.
Describe the method of least squares.
Define correlation. Discuss its merits and demerits.
Define regression analysis.
Write properties of maximum like estimator.
Write difference between correlation and regression.

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Part B

1 , 0 x , 0
else

11. a) Given x1, x2, x3 is a random sample of size n with pdf f x, 0

Obtain the MLE for

(8)
b) Obtain the MLE of in f x, 1

x , 0 x 1 .Based on an independent sample size

n. Test if this estimates sufficient for .

(8)

12. a) Find the maximum likelihood estimate for the parameter of a Poisson distribution on the
basis of a sample of size n. Also find its variance.
(8)
b) Show that the sample mean x , is sufficient for estimating the parameter of a Poisson
distribution.
(8)
13. Calculate the correlation coefficient between the age of husband and the age of wife from the
following data.
Age of husband

35

34

40

43

56

20

38

Age of wife

32

30

31

32

53

20

33

14. a) Using 1964 as the origin obtain a straight line trend equation by the method of least squares
and also find the trend values for 1969.
(10)
Year

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

Value

380

400

650

720

690

620

670

950

1040

b) A group of 5 students took tests before and after training and obtain the following scores:
(6)

Scores before training:

Scores after training:

10

Find by the method of least squares the straight line of fit.

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15. Fit a straight line to the following data.

Year

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

38

40

65

72

69

60

87

95

Sales in lakhs

Estimate the sales in 1977.

(16)

16. Given the bivariate data:

x

a) Fit a regression line of Y on X and hence predict Y when X = 10

b) Fit a regression line of X on Y and hence predict X when Y = 2.5

(16)