UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
MT204: ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS — 2018 Tut 3/VM

1. Find the general solution of the following system of differential equations

y10 = y1 + 4y2
y20 = 2y1 + 3y2 .
Find the solution that satisfies the condition y1 (0) = −2 and y2 (0) = 1.
2. Find the general solution of the following system of differential equations
y10 = 3y1 + y2 + y3
y20 = 2y1 + 4y2 + 2y3
y30 = y1 + y2 + 3y3 .
Find the solution that satisfies the initial conditions y1 (0) = 0, y2 (0) = 1 and y3 (0) =
−1.
3. Let u = (u1 , u2 ) and v = (v1 , v2 ). Show that the following are inner products on R2 .
(a) hu, vi = 3u1 v1 + 5u2 v2 (b) hu, vi = 4u1 v1 + u2 v1 + u1 v2 + 4u2 v2
4. Let u = (u1 , u2 , u3 ) and v = (v1 , v2 , v3 ). Determine which of the following are inner
products on R3 . For those that are not list the axioms that do not hold.
(a) hu, vi = u1 v1 + u3 v3 (b) hu, vi = u21 v12 + u22 v22 + u23 v32
(c) hu, vi = 2u1 v1 + u2 v2 + 4u3 v3 (d) hu, vi = u1 v1 − u2 v2 + u3 v3
5. Determine whether the given vectors are orthogonal with respect to the Euclidean inner
product.
(a) u = (−1, 3, 2), v = (4, 2, −1) (b) u = (−2, −2, −2), v = (1, 1, 1)
(c) u = (0, 0, 0), v = (v1 , v2 , v3 ) (d) u = (−4, 6 − 10, 1), v = (2, 1, −2, 9)
6. Let R2 , R3 , R4 have the Euclidean inner product. Use the Gram-Schmidt process to
transform the following into orthonormal bases.
(a) u = (1, −3), v = (2, 2) (b) u = (1, 1, 1), v = (−1, 1, 0), w = (1, 2, 1)
(c) u = (0, 2, 1, 0), v = (1, −1, 0, 0), w = (1, 2, 0, −1), z = (1, 0, 0, 1)