Some more algebra problems

August 3, 2008

Sorry, I will not be able to answer all of my semi-promised exercises. The UPCAT sked is so toxic, I am writing this midnight and I have to be at UP at 530 am! suicide, huh. haha

Anyway, I’ll just work on some examples of my own and just read between the lines why.

An inlet pipe can fill the pool in 3 hours while a drain pipe will drain the pool in 8 hours. If the inlet pipe is turned on and the outlet pipe is accidentally also turned on after one hour that the inlet pipe gushing, how many more minutes would it take for the pool to be filled halfway?

Soln: rate of inlet pipe is 1/3

rate of outlet pipe is -1/8

Since the inlet pipe has been gushing for 1 hour, it would have done 1 times 1/3 or 1/3 of the work. The equation would look like this:

1 (1/3) + (1/3 + -1/ 8 ) t = 1/2

where t is the time wherein the pool becomes halfway full. You know of course how to solve for this.

Find the value of s such that the perimeter of the the equilateral triangle with side s is equal to the area of the same equilateral triangle with side equal to s.

Soln: We know that the perimeter of an equilateral triangle with side equal to s is 3s and you may verify that the area of the triangle with side equal to s is sqrt(3) s^2 divided by 4. Equate the two and you would get the correct answer.


Equations of Lines in 3D

April 30, 2008

Let l be the line represented by the symmetric equations

\displaystyle\frac{x-2}{4} = \frac{y+3}{-2}=\frac{z-1}{7}

1. Find the point of intersection of l and the plane 5x-y+2z=12.

2. Find the distance between P(0,1,0) and l.

3. The acute angle between l and the line m: \hspace{.3in} x=1+t; \hspace{.2in} y=3-2t; \hspace{.2in} z=4t.

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Linear Independence

April 6, 2008

Let V be a finite vector space over the set of rationals, and F be a linear transformation from V to V. Suppose x, y and z are vectors in V such that

(i) F(x) = y

(ii) F(y) = z

(iii) F(z) = x+y

Suppose x is nonzero. Show that x, y and z are linearly independent vectors.

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Area, Volume and Perimeter

March 23, 2008

Consider the regions \displaystyle \mathcal{R}_{1}\,\mathrm{and}\,\mathcal{R}_{2} enclosed by the curves \displaystyle y=x^{3}+\frac{1}{2} and \displaystyle x=-\left(y-\frac{1}{2}\right)^{2}. Set-up the integrals representing the following:

  1. The perimeter of \displaystyle \mathcal{R}_{2}.
  2. The total area of the regions \displaystyle \mathcal{R}_{1} and \displaystyle \mathcal{R}_{2}.
  3. The volume of the solid generated when \displaystyle \mathcal{R}_{1} is rotated about the line \displaystyle y=-\frac{1}{2} using the method of washers.
  4. The volume of the solid generated when \displaystyle \mathcal{R}_{2} is rotated about the line x=-1 using the method of cylindrical shells.

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Related Rates

March 23, 2008

A particle moves along the curve y=\ln x so that its abscissa is increasing at a rate of 2 units per second. At what rate is the particle moving away from the origin as it passes through the point (e,1)?

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Largest Rectangle in Some Region in the First Quadrant

March 23, 2008

Find the area of the largest rectangle that can be inscribed in the region bounded by the curve y=e^{-x}, the line x=0 and the positive x-axis.

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Normal Line Problem

March 23, 2008

Find the equation of the line normal to the curve \displaystyle y=\tanh \left[\sin^{-1} \left( x-\sqrt{2}\right) \right] at the point where \displaystyle x=\sqrt{2}.

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Integrals Involving Transcendental Functions

March 23, 2008

Evaluate the following integrals.

  1. \displaystyle \int_{\frac{\pi}{6}}^{\frac{\pi}{4}}\frac{\ln^{2}\left(\sin x\right)}{\tan x}\: dx
  2. \displaystyle \int\frac{2^{x}\: dx}{\left(2^{x}+1\right)\sqrt{4^{x}+2^{x+1}-8}}
  3. \displaystyle \int\frac{dx}{x+4\sqrt{x}+13}

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Indeterminate Forms Involving Transcendental Functions

March 23, 2008

Logarithmic and Implicit Differentiation

March 23, 2008