Faculty of Science

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Final Exam Spring 2012

MATH 2220 Linear Algebra and Engineering Applications

Wednesday June 20th, 2012

Duration: 2hours

Student's name: …………………………………… ID#:……………………………………………….

Key Solution
Answer the following Questions: Show the details of your work

Note: An answer with no supportive work will receive no credit.

Group I: CIRCLE ONLY ONE for each problem.

[6 points, 2 each]

i- The argument of z  3  i 3 is
 3 
(A)  0 (B)  (C)   (D) 
4 4 2
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ii- The polar form of z  3  i 3 3 is
(A) 6ei 4 / 3 (B) 3e i / 3 (C) 3 3e3i / 4 (D) 6e7i / 3

iii- The value of i 4k 3 for any positive integer k is

(A) i (B) i (C) 1 (D) 1

Group II: Linear Algebra Part

[10 points]

1- (4-points)
(a) The following matrix represents the reduced matrix form of an
augmented matrix for a system of three equations in unknowns
x1 , x2 and x3 .
1 0 2 3
 
0 1 3 4
0 0 0 0 

What is the solution of the system?
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Solution:
1 0 2 3  x1    2   3
       
The augmented matrix  0 1 3 4  represents the system  x2     3  x3   4 
0 0 0 0  x   1   0
  3    

 1 2  1
 
(b) Find k so that matrix A   0 3 k  has rank 2.
1 1 1 
 

Solution:

1 0 3 
 
The reduced form is AR   0 1  2  to have rank 2, this will be only
0 0 k  6
 
when k  6

2- (6-points) Consider the real symmetric matrix S

1 3 0
 
S  3 0 1
0 1 1
 
Determine a diagonal matrix D and an Orthogonal matrix Q
such that Q1 S Q  D .

Solution:
Since S is real symmetric, it is diagonalizable and it has real eigenvalues:
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1  41 1  41
 1, ,
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  1   6   6 
     
and the corresponding eigenvectors are  0  ,   1  41  ,   1  41 
  3    
   2   2 
 1 6 6 
 

10 82  2 41 82  2 41 

Q 0 ( 1  41 ) ( 1  41 ) 
 82  2 41 82  2 41 
  3 2 2  ,
 10 82  2 41 82  2 41 
1 0 0 
 
D   0 (1  41) 2 0 
0 (1  41) 2 
 0

Group III: Complex Part

[26 points]

1- (4-points) Let z  x  iy
Show that e z  e x

Solution:
LHS  e z  e xiy  e x eiy  e x eiy  e x
eiy  cos( y )  i sin( y )  1
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2- (16-points) Evaluate the following integrals:

a)  i z dz

, where  : is the line segment from 0 to  4  3 i

Solution:
z  t (4  3 i) , 0  t  1
1 1
25
 i z dz  i (4  3 i) ((4t  3 t i) dt 
0 0
2
i

sin( z ) cos(2 z )
b)

 1  z 2
dz , where  is the circle of radius 2 about the origin
Solution:

The circle  : z  2 encloses both z  i and z  i , each of which are simple

poles of f (z )
sin(i) cos(2i) sin(i) cos(2i) sin(i) cos(2i)
Re s( f ( z ), i)  and Re s( f ( z),i)  
2i  2i 2i
sin( z ) cos(2 z ) sin(i) cos(2i)
Thus  dz  2 i [ ]   (sin(i) cos(2i))

1 z 2
2i

1 1
c)  sin z  dz ,  is the circle z  i  4


Solution:
1
sin   is differentiable at all points except at z  0 , but z  0 is outside
z
1 1
z i 
4.
So by using Cauch theorem  sin z  dz  0


z2
d)  ( z  1)2 dz , where  is any closed path enclosing .

Solution:
z2
f ( z) 
( z  1) 2
has a pole of order 2 at z  1
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 f ( z) dz  2 i [2]  4 i
d 2
 Re s ( f ,1)  lim ( z )  2 , then
z 1 dz 

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 2z  1
3- (4-points) Let f ( z)  Find u and v so that f ( z)  u( x, y)  iv( x, y) ,
z
determine all points at which the Cauchy-Riemann equations are satisfied,
and determine all points at which the function is differentiable

Solution:

2 x  1  2 y i 2 x 2  x  2 y 2  i ( y )
f ( x  i y)  
xi y x2  y2

2x2  x  2 y 2 y
u ,v 2
x y
2 2
x  y2

Since u , v and all partial are continuous at all z  0 , and the Cauchy-Rieman
equations hold for all z  0 , f (z ) is differentiable for all z  0

4- (2-points) Determine all singularities of the following functions f (z ) and

classify each singularity as removable and/or a pole of a certain order:

sin( z )
f ( z) 
z ( z 2  1)

Solution:

Has removable singularities at each of z  0 and a simple pole at z   i

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