Sn wa PRE-LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION, 2015 APPLIED MATHEMATICS ~ HIGHER LEVEL TIME: 2% HOURS ‘Six questions to be answered. All questions camry equal marks. ‘A Formulae and Tables booklet may be used during the examination, ‘Take the value of g 0 be 9.8:m #*, Marks may be lost if necessary work is not clearly shown, ‘Marks may be lost for omission of correct units tb numerical answers. es page Hof 8© © ‘A train travels a distance d from ret atone station to rest at another station. “The train travels forthe fist part of its journey witha constant aceeleration Itthen immediately deceerates to rest atthe second station with aconstant deceleration fi ‘Shows tat the total me taken is hts) Khe ‘A pattcl,P, starts from rest a point and moves with constant acceleration ‘fina straight ine. A time 7, after P starts from A, second particle, Q, starts from A and moves in the same direction along the same straight ine as . (Q-moves with a constant speed of u Prove that Q wil overake P ifu> 2/7 (Gi) Assuming Q does overtake P, ie, that u > 2/7, express interms of tu fand T the length of time for which Q is ahead of P ‘A man can swim at 3 m “instill water, —§ Fe swims across a river of width 60 metres, ‘The river flows with a constant speed of Sms~ parallel tothe staght banks. He swims at an angle to the upstream direction but ends up going at an angle @ el L to the downstream direction. . (Show that an 9 = 804 F3e0s (Gi) Find the time taken for the man to cross by the shortest path Ship A is travelling with a constant speed of 10 m sin the diretion 30° north fof east At midday, ship B is 10 km due east of ship A, and is tveling in 2 ‘straight line with a constant speed of v ms" (@ Calculate the minimum possible value of» ifB isto intercept A. (i) 1fy=6, show that B can travel in ether of two directions to inteoept A, ‘and find these diretions, correct to the nearest degree, pase dof 82 ©) 4 @ © A particle is projected from a point ona horizontal plane with speed 21 ms“ satan angle to the horizontal. The particle then strikes a small target whose horizontal and vertical distances from the point of projection are 30 m and 10m respectively. © the two possible values of an (i) the two possible times taken o strike the target. A pattie is projected up an inclined plane from a point O, with intial speed of| 35ms~. The line o projection makes an angle withthe inclined plane and the plane is incined at an angle of 45° to the horizontal. ‘The plane of projection is vencal and contains the line of greatest lope, ‘The particle is moving horizontally when it strikes the inclineé plane at ©. © Show thattan = 1 (i) Find |09). ‘Two particles of masses 2 ke and 6 kg are connected by alight inextensible string passing over fixed smooth pulley. Initially the two panicles are at rst a the ‘sume horizontal level The system is released from rest ‘The 6kg particle takes 2 seconds to i) fo] strike horizontal ground, Find (the inital height ofthe particles above the ground (the greatest height above the ground to which the2 kg mass rises. A smooth wedge, of mass 2m and slope 4S, rests on ‘smoot horizania plan. A pre of mass mis placed onthe inline face of the wedge, ‘The system is released from rest. Find the speed ofthe mass m relative to the wedge, wien the speed ofthe wedge iso5ms! page 30685. (@)__Asmooth sphere A, of mass m,, collides diretly with a smooth sphere B, ‘of mas m, which i at rst on a smooth horizontal table, The coefficient cof restitution between the spheres ise, “The line of centes ofthe spheres isa right angles to a smoot vertical cushion atthe edge ofthe table, Sphere B then strikes the cushion and rebounds. “The coeficent of restitution between sphere B andthe cushion is. ‘Show that there wil be no further impact between the spheres ifmy(l +e, ee) O from A. The system is re to rotate about a horizontal taxis through A perpendicular to the ro, ‘A uniform rod AB of mass m and length 2 has a A \ ‘When the system makes smal oscillations about the horizontal axis through A, the length teeta ie nan © Eeronsinmt (i) the system i released from rest with AB horizontal, find the sped of ‘Bwhenit is vertically below 4 awe Sof 82 @ o 0. @ o 275 em? of liquid of relative density 21 is mixed with Ven’ of another liquid of relative density 35, there is no contraction of volume, and the relative density ofthe mixture is 295, find the value of V. AA block of mass 2-1 kg, and relative density 42, is. held suspended bya string attached toa scale A D4 The block is completely immersed in 1500 cm? of a liquid of relative density 1-2 contained ina cylindrical beaker of mass 0.7 kg. The beaker sits ‘on another sealeB. scale A registers x kg, find the valu of x I (li) The radius ofthe beaker is 10cm. Find the hight, in em, of the liquid inthe beaker, correct to two decimal places A. particle moving ina straight line experiences an acceleration of the parle sat rest and bas «displacement of 14 em relative toa fixed point O onthe lin. eos-t4 ems attime seconds. At time 6 (Find the frst postive time that the particle reaches the point O. (Show that the panicle is moving with simple harmonic motion. A paricle moving ina straight ine of mass m is acted upon by a free of magnitude 2 directed away fom a fixed point O onthe lin, wheres the distance ofthe panicle fom 0. ‘The particle starts from rst ta distance d from O. Show thatthe velocity ofthe particle tends to limitof page 6of §