UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

EXAMINATION FOR INTERNAL STUDENTS

MATH6501

MATH6501B

MODULE NAME

Mathematics for Engineers 1

DATE

16-May-11

TIME

14:30

TIME ALLOWED

MODULE CODE

ASSESSMENT
PATTERN

2 Hours 0 Minutes

2010/11-MATH6501B-001-EXAM-160
2010 University College London

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All questions may be attempted but only marks obtained on the best five solutions will
count.

The use of an electronic calculator is permitted in this examination.

1.

(a) Find -2 for

(i)

(ii)

iJ = /lax

y = cos (1111/x2

1)

(b) Find 2 for x2y + sin y + ln(xy) + 7r = 0.

(c) A curve is given by x = t3 + 3t2 and y = t1 8t2 Find 2 and
. Show that
the curve has only one critical (stationary) point and that this occurs when
t = 2. Is it a maximum. minimum or point of inflection? Justify your answer.

2.

(a) Let f (x, y) = tan-1(y/x). Show

2f +

ax2
(b) Let y =sin -1 x. Use

dx

dy

af
0y2

to show

ib)

dy
dx

x2

Determine, if any, maxima, minima or points of inflection of y = sin-1(x2

3. Find the following integrals

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

e-2x cos xdx,

7r2

sin

-x'

12/4

5x + 1
x3

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2dx
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4.

(a) Show the differential equation

In (yX)

c-12.

dx

= 3x2y

is separable Find the solution subject to y(2) = e3.

(b) Solve
dy

xdx + 3y

5.

3x 2 = O.

y(1) = 2.

(a) Define carefully the dot and vector products of two vectors a and b. Use these
definitions to show (a x b).a = 0.

(b) Let i, j and k be unit vectors along Cartesian axes x, y and z respectively.
Let a = all + a2j + a3k and b = bli + b2,j + b3k be two vectors. Using your
definition above, show that their dot product is al b1 + a2b2 + a3b3.

(c) The three points (0,1,1), (-1, 0, -1) and (2, -1, -2) form the vertices of a
triangle. Use vector methods to find the angle between the sides that meet at
(0,1,1) and the area of the triangle.

6.

(a) Let

I re'dt,
f00

where 71 is a positive integer. Show .I,, = n/.1 (you may assume that as
t
oo, re' 0 for all n). Hence, or otherwise, find /5 and
00

tse-2tdt.

(b) Use Newton's method to find a non-zero approximate solution to the equation
2 sin x = x2

to an accuracy of 2 decimal places starting at x = 7r.

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T (a) Let f

3 = 1,- ,N be a (discrete) probability distribution function. Write

down the mean (i.e. expectation) it of this distribution. Given the variance o'
is defined as
a2

VTh(xi

A)2 f(;),

3=1

show

a2 = /12 +
3=1

Consider the toss of a fair coin where x0 = 0 is the event of tossing a head and
xi = 1 is the event of tossing a tail. Find the standard deviation for the toss
of the coin.

(b) Write down the Poisson distribution with mean p. 1000 people each select an
integer at random between 1 and 500. It is required to compute the probability
that exactly three people select the number 39. Explain why the Poisson
distribution can be used to accurately estimate this probability and find it.

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