UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS BOARD General Certificate of Education Examination JUNE 1990 EXAMINATION Subject Title Further Mathematics Paper No//Title | Special Paper | )Visubjest Code No, | 372 Three hours: Full marks may be obtained for answers to SEVEN questions. (Uf you attempt more than seven questions, only the best seven answers will be taken into account.) All questions carry equal marks, ‘A booklet ‘Mathematical Formulae including Statistical Formulae and Tables’ is provided. In calculations you are advised to show all the steps in your working, giving your answer at each stage. Whenever a numerical value of g is required, take g 7/3314 GK 2M RM_3/3/3;3)1010 © 1990 Universit of London2 1, Describe the curve Cin the complex plane given by lz—a|=p, aeC, a #0, peR*. Show that the image of C under the transformation 1 ia is cither a circle or a straight line, Given that the image of C is a straight line, show that all points » lying on the line have the form wad site’, a-an(2), AeRS ‘The straight line L, has the equation |z — al = |z + al. Find the equation of the straight line L, which is the image of L,. inn ht (an re!) iby sow tt ‘must be the line with equation |: ~ 1) = |2—il or the line with equation jz — I] The curve C is given by where 4 is a constant. Given that 1 < cosh < 2, show that (@_C has two turning points at values of x which are independent of 2, (®) at the minimum turning point the value of y lies in the range 0 fa and that if x < fa then, whatever the value of the coefficient of friction, the particle always slips before losing contact with the lamina, |. The two independent random variables X, and X, have means 4, and jt and variances o7 and 03 respectively. Show that the mean of the random variable U'= X, + Xp is given by ay + It may be assumed that the variance of Uis given by 0} + 3. In an electroplating process the amount, in grams, of plate deposited per hour on any square metre of a given host surface is normally distributed with mean 3.90 and standard deviation 0.20. Obtain an interval of the form (39 + a) grams which, with probability 0.95, contains the mass of plate deposited in ten hours on any given square metre. Find the shortest time that @ host surface of four square ‘metres should be exposed to the process in order that the probability that each square metre receives at least 40 grams of plate exceeds 0.99. (You may assume that the amounts deposited on each of the square metres are independent random variables.) 3 A point P lies on the ellipse with equation area ae +t 1a>b, and the foot of the perpendicular from the origin, O, to the tangent to the ellipse at P. Show that rah aia (PFY = a? + 8 ol (OFY. Hence, or otherwise, find (@) the maximum length of PF, (6) the maximum area of the triangle OPF. G is a set of 3x3 matrices in which each member of G corresponds to a lincar transformation with the following properties: (a) Bach point of the z-axis is mapped onto itself. (b) The line x =0, y == is mapped onto itself (©) The line x = y = 2 is mapped onto itself. {in (6) and (c) points on the line are not necessarily mapped onto themselves.] Find the form of a typical member of 6. Given further that the transformations corresponding to members of G are such that (@) the point (0, 1,0) is nor mapped into a point in the plane » = 0, (@) the point (1, 0,0) is 07 mapped into a point in the plane x=0, show that G forms a group under the operation of matrix multiplication, which may be assumed to be associative.4 6. When a spherical shell of mass M moves vertically downwards in a liquid it experiences, in addition to the constant gravitational force, a constant upward buoyancy force of magnitude (1—4)Mg and a resisting force of magnitude Mke, where » is the speed of the shell and and ‘k are positive constants, The interior of the shell contains a light gas-filled balloon of volume V, which provides an additional upward force of magnitude pgV, where p is a constant. The volume V of the balloon satisfies the equation (@o + pgx)V = c, 3 where pp and ¢ are constants and x is the distance of the centre of the shell below the free surface of the liquid. Show that the sphere can rest in equilibrium in the position ven by ieee *= Me At time ¢ the vertical depth of the centre of the shell below its equilibrium position is s. Show that, if terms of order s? and higher can be neglected, then ds | pds _ (as)? ys — fread (S)ae-0 Given that initially the shell is in the equilibrium position and hhas a small downward speed w, find s during the period when terms of order s* may still be neglected. 5 A particle of mass m has position vector r relative to a fixed origin O. The particle moves under a constant gravitational force mg and a force of magnitude mca%jr| which is directed towards O, where « is a positive constant, (@) Show that at time 1, (8) Given that the particle is projected from O with velocity V, find r at any subsequent time, It is given that V.g = 0 and |Vio < Ig (©) Find a cartesian equation of the path of the particle relative to axes Oxy, where Ox is horizontal and parallel to V and Oy is vertically upwards, (@) Sketch the path of the particle, showing the coordinates of any intersections with the coordinate axes. (©) Find the greatest and least speeds of the particle and the time which elapses before the particle returns to O for the first time. A satellite S, of mass m, always moves around Mars in an elliptical orbit whose equation in polar coordinates (r, 8) is of the form 7 = RU + ec0s8), where ris the distance of S from O, the centre of Mars, and gare positive constants and e is the eccentricity of the ellipse. Given that the gravitational force exerted by Mars has magnitude ™#, show that at any time where is measured so as to ensure that 6 > 0. ‘When $ is at the point where r = has speed V in a direction perpendicular to OS. Show that V2d < 2p. At this point S ejects a capsule of mass 4m in a forward direction with speed 4V relative to O. Find the speed of S immediately after it has ejected the capsule. Given that Y= me) find the eocentricity of the new orbit T3314 Turn over