INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA Tutorial Sheet # 1 SJES 2435 Mathematical Modeling I

1) A swimming pool whose volume is 10 000 gal contains water that is 0.01% chlorine. Starting at t 0 , city water containing 0.001% chlorine is pumped into the pool at a rate of 5 gal/min. The pool water flows out at the same rate. What is the percentage of chlorine in the pool after 1 hr? When will the pool water be 0.002% chlorine? 2) A nitric acid solution flows at a constant rate of 6 L/min into a large tank that initially held 200L of a 0.5% nitric acid solution. The solution inside the tank is kept well stirred and flows out of the tank at a rate of 8 L/min. If the solution entering the tank is 20% nitric acid, determine the volume of nitric acid in the tank after t minutes. When will the percentage of nitric acid in the tank reach 10%? 3) Blood carries a drug into an organ at a rate of 3 cm 3 /sec and leaves at the same rate. The organ has a liquid volume of 125 cm 3 . If the concentration of the drug in the blood entering the organ is 0.2 g/cm 3 , what is the concentration of the drug in the organ at time

t if there was no trace of the drug initially? When will the concentration of the drug in the
organ reach 0.1 g/cm 3 ? 4) Industrial waste is pumped into a tank containing 1000 gallons of water at a rate of 1 gal/min, and the well-stirred mixture leaves the tank at the same rate. a) Find the amount of waste, y (t ) , in the tank at time t . What happens as t ? b) How long does it take for the concentration to reach 20% of its maximum level? c) After 1 hr, the industrial waste is stopped from entering the tank and water is pumped at a rate of 1 gal/min. Use the step function to build a model for this initial value problem. Solve and discuss what happens as t .