(a) (b) (a) (b) MATRICULATION EXAMIN. TION 1956 ADVANCED LEVEL. APPLIED]MATHEMATICS I Time allowed: Three hours Answer any SEVEN questions Take g as 33 ft per sec. per sec. A particle moves with uniform acceleration along a straight line. Prove that the distances covered in successive equal intervals of time are in arithmetic progression. A body falls from rest under the force of grav: Neglecting resistance of the air, find the distances covered during .the fifth and the nth seconds. Along two concentric circular tracks of radii r; and r2 and of common centre O, two cyclists A and B travel with uniform speeds Vj and V2'in the clockwise direction. Determine the: magnitude V of the velocity of A relative to B when the angle: AOB is 0. If Vi =4 mp.h., V2 =3 mp.h,, m1 = 0.3 mile and r2 = 0.2 mile, find the interval of time during which V changes from its minimum to its maximum value. A motor car weighing 2000 Ib can m a steady speed of 60 m.p.h. on the level when its engine exerts 80 horse power. What is the total resistance? If the car free-wheels down an inclined plane with constant speed, find the inclina~ tion of the plane, assuming that the resistance remains the same as before. 2 An clastic ball is projected with a velocity 240 ft/sec. from a point © at the foot of a plane of inclination 30°. Find the angle of projection for maximum range up the plane. It is found that at the second impact, the ball strikes the plane perpendicularly with a velocity 604/3 ft/sec. What is the coefficient of impact? 5Advanced Level Papers 1956 Two masses A (W; Ib) and B (\V2 Ib) are connected by a light string d ft long and lie on a rough horizontal table. A third mass C (WW Ib) hanging vertically is connected to B by a taut string passing over a smooth pulley at the edge of the table. At first A and B are held close to each other, then B is released. If A covers a distance s ft before coming to rest while B has not reached the edge, find the coefficient of friction, 4, between the table and the masses A and B in terms of the given quantities. It is assumed that y is the same for both A and B. (a) In the figure AB, BC, CD and A DA represent four equal, light, smoothly jointed links of a simple governor, each of length 1 ft. Two equal masses of 5 Ib each are at- tached to Band D. The point Ais B D fixed on a vertical rotating shaft while C represents a collar of mass 30 Ib which can slide freely on the shaft. Find the tension in cach link when the governor is revolv- Cc ing at 50 r.p.m. (b) A small smooth ring of mass m slides on a wire in the form of a vertical circle of radius r. It starts from rest at the uppermost point of the circle. Determine the position at which the reaction between the ring and the wire isa minimum. A particle of mass 1 Ib moves with simple harmonic motion in a straight line, on which two points P and Q are fixed at 1 ft apart. The period of oscillation is 27 secs. and the velocities of the particle at P and Q are 6 ft/sec. and 5 ft/sec. respectively. Find the position of the centre of oscillation, the amplitude and the maximum velocity. When the particle is at Q, an impulse of 4 poundal-second units is given to it in the direction of the motion. What is the velocity of the particle immediately after the impact?7a Applied Mathematics I 7 A compound pendulum, consisting of a light rigid rod with a sphere rigidly and symmetrically attached to one end of it, oscillates about a horizontal axis through the free end of the rod. The rod is of length 25 inches, the sphere is of radius 5 inches and weight 2 ib, and the moment of inertia of the pendulum about the axis of suspension is 1820 Ib in.? Find the length of the equivalent mple pendulum. If the compound pendulum oscillates through - si an angle of 15° at each side of the vertical, find the components of ‘tion on the axis of suspension, along and perpendicular to s an angle 7:5° with the vertical. the re: the rod when it mak (a) Let M, L, T be the fundamental units of mass, length, time, respectively. Write down the dimensions of linear velocity, angular acceleration, momentum and power. (b) State the principle of conservation of momentum and the principle of conservation of energy. ‘Two bodies m; and mz moving in the same straight line with velocities u1 and w respectively collide with each other. They move together with a common velocity v after collision. Prove that there is a definite loss of kinetic energy and explain why.MATRICULATION EXAMINATION 1956 ApvaNcep LEVEL APPLIED MATHEMATICS II Time allowed: Three hours Answer any SEVEN questions. (i) The sides AB, BC and CA of the triangle ABC are of lenght 2, 3 and 4.inches respectively. Find the position of the point P on the line AB so that the resultant of the forces represented by PA, PB and PG makes an angle of 30° with AB. (ii) A quadrilateral ABCD is given with AB=6", BC=AC=5", CD=3" and DA=4"; and forces of 1, 5, 10, 8 Ib.wt. act along its sides BA, BC, DC, DA, respectively, in the directions indicated by the order of the letters. Find the magnitude and line of action of the resultant. A light equilateral triangle ABC of each side s ft rests in equili- brium in a vertical plane. ‘The vertex A is pin-jointed to a vertical wall; the vertex C, which is higher than B, is connected to a point D of the wall, s ft vertically above A, by an elastic string. A load of P Ib.wt. is hung at B. It is given that the tension of the string is equal to k.CD Ib. wt., where h is a positive constant. Let 0 be —>, —- — the angle which AB makes with DA and § the angle which AD makes with the reaction R of the wall at A. (i), Prove that the tension of the string is 2sk cos(30° + 0/2) and that C is given by tan 0 = sky/3/(2P—sk), (ii) Find the vertical and horizontal components of R in terms of P and 8. Hence or otherwise, show that cot 8 = ese 0 — cot(30°+ 0/2). In the accompanying figure, ABCD represents a smoothly pin- jointed wall crane. A load of 2 tons is hung by a light chain which 8Applied Mathematics IT 9 passes over a smooth pulley at C and whose other end is fixed to the vertical wall at E, A load of 1 ton is hung from the joint B. Neglecting the weights of the crane, the pulley and the chain, find the tension of the string, and using graphical method or otherwise, find the stresses in each rod of the crane and also the reactions of the wall at A and D, ‘Three uniform cubical blocks, with edges cach of length 1 ft, arc placed one above another and form a pile in the shape of a flight of stairs. The top block is displaced 1/9 ft to one side with respect to the middle block which itself is displaced 1/3 ft. to the same side with respect to the bottom block. Find the position of the centre of gravity of the pile. Find also the minimum inclination of the base of the bottom block so that the pile topples over if (i) the blocks are glued together; (ii) the blocks are simply placed one above another but the friction between them is sufficient to prevent sliding. Show that in latter case, the middle block is the first one to topple over. A uniform beam, 2a ft long, 2a/5 ft high, and weighing «w lb, rests over two pegs A and B, a ft apart. The inclination of AB is 0 with B higher than A. The angles of friction between the beam and the pegs A and B are respectively 0-+-¢ and 0—g,where 0>9>0, and 0 + 9 <45°. Let x be the distance between A and the lower end of the beam. Find, in terms of x, a, wand 0, the components of the reaction of each peg along and perpendicular to the beam. Show that the beam will just slip over the pegs if x/a =(1—tan 0 tan ¢)/2 — (tan 0)/5.Advanced Level Papers 1956 A plane square lamina with sides cach of a ft is immersed vertically into two layers of liquids such that one side of the lamina lies on the free surface of the upper layer. ‘The densities of the upper and lower layers of liquids are respectively dy and dz, and the upper layer is @/4 ft deep. Find the total thrust on the lamina by the two liquids. Also find the position of the centre of pressure. _ 3 3 ~ A rectangular tank is divided into 2 equal rectangular compart- ments, each of which is 4 ft deep, 3 ft wide and 20 ft long, and each is filled with a homogeneous material. The tank floats on water in equilibrium such that 3/4 of one side and 1/4 of the op- posite side are immersed. It is given that the density of water is 62-5 lb per cubic foot. Neglecting the weight of the tank, find (i) the total load of the tank and the position of the centre of buoyancy, and (ii) the density of the material in each compartment. One hundred rounds of test bullets are fired from a machine gun set at a fixed elevation. ‘The recorded ranges in yards from the gun are given in the following frequency table: Centre of interval 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050 2100 2150 2200 Frequency 2 6 ih> GP They 1 (i) Draw a frequency diagram, (ii) compute the first quartile and median, and (iii) calculate the mean and the’ standard deviation.