RAMAKRISHNA MISSION VIVEKANANDA CENTENARY COLLEGE, RAHARA, KOLKATA

End Semester Examination 2022

Semester V
B.Sc. Mathematics Honours
Core Course XI
Full Marks: 50 Time: 2 hours

1. Answer any THREE from FOUR questions 3X2=6

a) Define characteristic curve.
b) Discuss the first order canonical form.
c) Obtain the variable  and  , which reduce to the partial differential equation
u xx  x u yy  0
2
.
d) Show that the P.D.E. of all cones which have their vertices at  0 , 0 , 0  is p x  q y  z .
2. Answer any TWO from THREE questions 2X5=10
a) Solve  x  3 x y
3 2
 py 3
 3x y  q  2z  x  y
2 2 2
.
b) Let u  x , y  be the solution of Cauchy’s problem
x u x  u y  1, u  x , 0   2 lo g x ; x  1 . Find u  e ,1  .

c) Find the complete integral of 2 x  q 2 z 2  1   p z .

3. Answer any TWO from THREE questions 2X5=10
a) Solve x 2  y  z  p  y 2  z  x  q  z 2  x  y  .
b) Find the equation of the integral surface satisfying
4 yzp  q  2 y  0

and passing through y 2  z 2  0 , x  z  2 .

 xy 
c) Find the partial differential equation z  F   , by eliminating the arbitrary function
 z 
method
4. Answer any TWO from THREE questions 2X7=14
a) Find the complete integral of
p x  pqy  2 pz  x
2
,
and derive the integral surface equation containing the line y  1, x  z .
b) Solve z  p x  x 2 y q 2  x 3 p q  0 , using Charpit’s method.
c) Define Cauchy’s problem for linear partial differential equation. Find the integral surface
x y  z p  yx  zq  x  y z,
2 2 2 2

passing through the curve x  y  0 , z  1 .

5. Answer any TWO from THREE questions 2X5=10
z 1  q   2  px  qy  ,
2
a) Find the complete integral of and derive the integral surface
equation containing the line x  1, y  h z  k .
b) Reduce the Canonical form for Wave equation, Heat equation and Laplace equation.
c) Find the integral surface 2 y  z  3  p   2 x  z  q  y  2 x  3  , passing through the curve
z  0, x  y  2x
2 2
.

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