Department of Mathematics

The City College of New York

Math 39200
Final Examination
Spring 2010
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Instructions: Show all work. Calculators and other electronic

devices must be out of sight, turned off, and not used.
Answer 5 questions from part I and 2 questions from Part II.
In the chart below, circle the numbers of the 5 questions in Part I and the 2 questions in
Part II that you want graded.
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All questions are listed together for your convenience on the following two pages.
Then they are listed separately inside the booklet, where you should write your answers.

PART I. Answer 5 complete questions from this part. (14 points each)
1

1. (a) Find the inverse of the matrix A = 1

2

(b) Use the matrix A 1

2
1
1

2 .
1

x 2 y 3z 1

that you found in (a) to solve the system x y 2 z 2

2x y z 1

No credit for any other method!

(c) Without figuring out the product B 2 A4 AT A1 , find the determinant of B.
3

2. (a) Find all eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix

1 2

y1 ' (t ) 3 y1 (t ) 4 y 2 (t )
(b) Use your answer to (a) to solve
y 2 ' (t ) y1 (t ) 2 y 2 (t )

for y1 ( t ) and y 2 ( t )

subject to initial conditions y1 (0) 1 and y 2 (0) 2 .

3. (a) Find the surface area of the part of the surface S: z x 2 y 2 with 1 z 2

3
100
1

(b) Find the determinant of the matrix

4
200

5
300

400

2
1

3
2

8
1

by using row

operations to reduce the matrix to upper triangular form.

4. (a) Solve the

2 x 9 y 4 z 6w 10

systems i) 5 x 22 y 9 z 14w 28

x 4 y z 2w 4

2 x 9 y 4 z 6w 10
and ii) 5 x 22 y 9 z 14 w 24

x 4 y z 2w 4

Note that the two systems have the same coefficient matrix.
(b) Using your work from part (a), find the ranks of the coefficient matrix and the
augmented matrix for each of the two linear systems.
(c) For each of the two systems, explain how those ranks predict the number of solutions
for the system.
Part I continues on the next page.

Part I, continued:
5. (a) Let C be the bottom half of the circle x 2 y 2 4 .
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Sketch the curve C and find the integral with respect to arc length y ds .
C

(b) Let S be the surface described by x 2 y 2 4 ; x 0; 1 z 4 .

Sketch S and find

xdS .
S

6. (a) Find a potential function for the vector field

F = y 2e xy 6 xy 2 z, e xy xye xy 12 z 6 x 2 yz , 12 y 3 x 2 y 2 . Explain why the value of
the line integral

F dr

is the same for all curves C from P(1,1,1) to Q (0,1,0) and find

the value of this integral.

x 2 y 3z 1

(b) Solve the system x y 2 z 2

2x y z 1

for z only by using Cramers Rule.

PART II: Answer 2 complete questions from this part (15 points each).
7. Let R be the region in the x,y-plane contained between the curves y 2 x 2 and
y 6 x 2 . Let C be the boundary curve of R, oriented counterclockwise. Sketch the region
R carefully. Find

ydx xdy

(a) directly, as a line integral AND

(b) as a double integral, by using Green's Theorem.
8. Let C be the intersection curve of the surfaces z 3 x and x 2 y 2 1 , oriented
counterclockwise as seen from above.

Calculate

(1 4 z )dx 2 xdy (1 5 y )dz

(a) directly as a line integral AND

(b) as a double integral, by using Stokes' Theorem.
9. Let T be the part of the solid ball x 2 y 2 z 2 4 that lies below the plane z = 1 .
Let F(x,y,z) be the vector field x, y, z . Use the outward pointing unit normal vector
to calculate

F n dS
S

(a) directly as a surface integral AND

(b) as a triple integral, by using the Divergence Theorem.