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Engineering certificate course stage

I Examination -

November 2011

Engineering Mathematics I

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Time Allowed: Three Hours

(tz 3)

(r -3

2)

, 4 s | *a I-, 1 -, lorconsideringABorotherwisefindqbsuchthat
": [, ab)'
[rs6)

(i) If o:l

A:B-l
(iD

If

P = QRQ-I, show that Pn =

(iii) Let.

QRoQ-l

where n is a positive integer.

: (| *l) *aa: (1 . sr'"* that e-rpe : (? . n",,"" nnd pn.

l)
!)

Question 2

(i) Transformz:2(l

+ iy'3 ) to polar form and indicate following complex numbers on an

Argand diagram
(a)

(ii)

z+) @)n,

Express

,+cJ+tstne

(iii) Find the locus of

intheformof x+iyandshowthat x2 *y2:4x-3.

P of a complex number

z,

if

lLz-41= 4

x+y+z - 6
x -y+22 -5
3x+Y+2 *8
2x -2y *32 :7
(b) Hence or otherwise solve them.

(ii) Vibrations of a mechanical system is represented by

/ 1, -2

\ /rr\

/xt\

(; :, -:)l:):*l::)

Find the maximum frequency of vibrations

,rv

ro.

Question 4

(i)

Describe what are two skew lines in 3-D space.

(ii) Find the line ofintersection with the planes x - 2y *32

(iii) Examine whether

the two lines given

:0 and

t tl
uy
= 'l' ='!-'
'3s7ls7

2x + 3y - 4z: 5.

uod

-2 =Y --4 =' =6

skew.

Question 5
(i) Solve the following first order differential equations:
(a)
v2

+o)dx

-(xv+x\!=o

d'y , 4"
ctxt **'=x2
-f-

+4

(ii)

(a) rindf| if u=log(x2+y2) ,*=r[+t,y=Jl-t

@) If Y:

'sin-t

h* ld*,
\' *r\fu

*'

xdY

dx

show that'

= o.
-v/-vs

Expand y to a series in ascending powers of x , as far as the term containing x3.

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Question 6

(i)

A metal plate of sides 4 by

has squares cut

from its corners,

and is then

folded up to make

an open box. What is the size of the box that has maximum volume?

(ii) Find turning points of y

(iii) If

! = x* f + 4

xa + 4x3

-2x2

-l2x

and determine the nature of the above points.

find maximum and minimum values of y and sketch the graph of y.

Question 7
The position vectors measured relative to an origin

O, of four points A, B, C,

by 4i+57+

respectively.

h, -3i+k, 3i+97+ 4k, -4i+4j +4ft,

(i) Writedown thevectors

'!r'

78,7e ,fr

interms

(ii) Prove that the points A, B, C, and D, lie in the

and

are given

of i,j,b_.

same plane.

(a) Find the equations of lines AB and CD and find the point of intersection of these two
lines.

(b) Find also equation of the plane passing through line AB and normal to the plane ABCD.

Question 8

(i) If in tunction f(x, y),

Findff,and

v.

: s2 + f and y : 2st, nna

use symmetry to write an expressi

ff#.#:0,
(ii)

simpli*

ff ^d Xin terms of X,H,s

onforff,

#*ff,

Using the hyperbolic functions cosh 0 and sinh 0, show that cosh0

Ifu(x, y):sinxcoshy; findv(x,y) suchttrat

By taking

w:

and t.

#=#,

cos i0 and isinh 0

v=0 aty:0.

u(x,y) + iv(x,y), express w as a function of z, where

z: x*

iy.

: sin i0.