NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY School of Engineering Examination for Internal Students Academic Session 2011/12

ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 1

Date: Monday 12 December 2011 Time Allowed 3 hours

Time: 10.00

Section A Attempt all questions Section B Attempt ONE question from two
All questions carry 20 marks, you can obtain a maximum of 120 marks in this examination.

The use of calculators approved by the School of Engineering is permitted.

DO NOT WRITE ON THIS EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER. THIS PAPER WILL BE COLLECTED AFTER THE EXAMINATION HAS ENDED.

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SECTION A: Answer all questions.

1. (a) Find i.

dy for dx 2 x y = cosh 2 x 1
(3 marks)

ii. cos( x 2 )  xy 2  e 2 x = 2 (3 marks) (b) Where does the curve y = x x have a turning point? Is it a maximum, minimum, or point of inflection? Justify your answer. (6 marks) (c) A curve is given by y = te t and x = t 2 . Find dy / dx and d 2 y / dx 2 by parametric differentiation. Where does the curve have a turning point? Is it a maximum, minimum, or point of inflection? Justify your answer. (8 marks)

2. (a) Verify that x g ( x, y ) = y sin , y

satisfies the equation

x2

x2g x2g x2g  2 xy  y 2 2 = 0. xxxy xx 2 xy

(6 marks)

(b) Let y = tan 1 x . Find

dy . Find also dx

tan

1

xdx. (6 marks) (Question continued on next page)

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(c) Define cosh x in terms of exponential functions and sketch the curve y = cosh x .

Show that
y  y2 1 = 1 y  y2 1 ,

and use this to show that

2 1 cosh y = s ln y  y  1 .

(8 marks)

3. Evaluate (a)

tan 3xdx,
(5 marks) (b)
5x  1 d x,  3x  2

x
(c)

(5 marks)

x

cos 2 xdx. (5 marks)

(d) Use an appropriate substitution followed by a hyperbolic substitution to evaluate

dy y 1  (ln y ) 2

(5 marks)

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4. (a) Solve

dy y ( y  1) , = dx x ( x  1)

y (2) = 1.
(6 marks)

(b) Solve

dy = cos x  y cot x, dx

y (T/2) = 1/4.
(6 marks)

(c) For the equation d2 y dy  4  9y = 0 2 dx dx

show that the auxiliary equation has complex roots and these give a basis of real solutions. Express your answer in the form

y = eEx ( A cos Fx  B sin Fx). (8 marks)

5.

(a) i. Two unit vectors c and d are perpendicular. Find ( c v d) v c and ( c v d).c (3 marks)
ii. The three points (1,  2, 1), (0, 2, 1) and (  1, 1, 2) form the vertices of a triangle. Use vector methods to find the angle between the two sides of the triangle which meet at (0, 2, 1). Find, also using vector methods, the area of the triangle. (3 marks)
3U (b) Find the length of arc of the spiral r = 6e from U = 0 to U = 2T .

(6 marks) (Question continued on next page)

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(c) i. A batch of 1500 components is examined and 1411 are found to be acceptable. Five components are picked at random from the production line. Calculate the probability that A. all are acceptable B. four are acceptable C. two are unacceptable. (4 marks) ii. Define the Poisson probability distribution with mean Q . On average 0.2 % of the nails produced by a factory are defective. What is the probability that no more than 2 defective nails will be found in a box of 1200? (4 marks)

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SECTION B: Answer one question only. 6. (a) Consider the system

x y  z =1 x yz =2 x  y  z = 3.
i Transform the augmented matrix of the system to reduced row-echelon form. ii Hence find the solution of the system. (6 marks)

(b) e A= g f h

i. Use row reduction to find the inverse (if it exists) of the matrix A . Explain clearly each step. ii. When will the matrix A not have an inverse? iii. Use the result from part (i) to show that ( AT ) 1 = ( A 1 )T , where T indicates the transpose. (8 marks) (c) i. Two 2v 1 matrices, s and t , are perpendicular if s T t = t T s = 0 . Show this to be true for s T = (1,1) and t T = (1,1) . ii. Find the set of all 2v 1 matrices, [ T = ( x, y) that are perpendicular to s T = (1,1) . (6 marks)

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7. (a) i. Use Simpson's Rule with four subintervals to find an approximation to

xe
0

x

dx.

ii. The error bound for Simpson's Rule is given by \

| ES |e

k (b  a ) ( (x ) 4 180

with | f (4) ( x) |e k

x [a, b].

and k a positive constant. Here, a and b are the limits of integration and (x is the width of the subinterval. Find the upper bound for the error in part (i). (6 marks)

(b) A standard pendulum of length L swinging under only the influence of gravity (i.e. no resistance) has a period, T , of

T=

4 T

dJ L T/2 0 1  k 2 sin 2 J g

where k 2 = sin 2 (J0 /2) , g } 9.8 m 2s 2 is the acceleration due to gravity, and J0 is the initial angle from which the pendulum is released (in radians.) Use the Trapezoidal Rule to approximate the period of the pendulum with L = 1 when it is released from an angle of J0 = T/4 rad. Use four subdivisions in your numerical integration. (6 marks) (Question continued on next page)

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(c) Given the initial value problem

yd f ( x, y ), =

y ( x0 ) = y0 ,

use the Runge-Kutta fourth order method to solve

f ( x, y ) = x  y.

Compute for one step with a step size of h = 0.2 .

Note: k1 = hf ( xn , yn ) 1 1 k 2 = hf ( xn  h, yn  k1 ) 2 2 1 1 k3 = hf ( xn  h, yn  k2 ) 2 2 1 1 k 4 = hf ( xn  h, yn  k3 ) 2 2 xn 1 = xn  h 1 yn1 = yn  (k1  2k 2  2 k3  k4 ) 6 (8 marks)

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