UNIVERSITY OF MALTA FACULTY OF ENGINEERING and FACULTY FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT B.Eng.(Hons.)/B.E.& A.(Hons.

) Year I January/February 2009 Assessment Session MAT1801 Mathematics For Engineers I 9.15 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. Calculators and mathematical booklets will be provided. No other calculators are allowed. Answer THREE questions y , show that x z z x +y = 3z. x y 11 marks (b) If u = ln(x + y ), show that 2u 2u + = 0. x2 y 2 (c) If w = 11 marks x , nd the approximate percentage error in w resulting y2z2 from the following errors in x, y and z respectively: 0.3% too large, 0.1% too small and 0.2% too large. 13 marks
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1. (a) If z = xy 2 cos

2. Solve the following dierential equations: dy (a) + x1 y = x4 y 3 ; dx (b) dy xy = . dx x+y

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3. (a) By changing the order of integration, evaluate

1 0 0 arccos y

esin x dxdy. 17 marks (b) Find the volume of the tetrahedron bounded by the planes x = 0, y = 0, z = 0 and 2x + y + 3z = 6. 18 marks
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4. If y is a function of x, and x = ez , show that dy d2 y dy d2 y dy x = and x2 2 = 2 . dx dz dx dz dz 7 marks Hence, or otherwise, solve the dierential equation d2 y dy + 2y = 5 sin(ln x), x2 2 x dx dx dy given that y = 0 and = 3 when x = 1. dx 5. (a) Find the Fourier series of the function f dened by f (x) = 1 + x if 1 1 x if 0 x x 0, 1,

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given that f is periodic with period 2. (b) State Parsevals identity, and use it to show that 1+ 1 1 1 4 + 4 + 4 + = . 34 5 7 96 25, 10 marks

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