ENGINEERING

MATHEMATICS
TH
8 EDITION

JOHN BIRD

WORKED SOLUTIONS TO

PRACTICE EXERCISES

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 INTRODUCTION

In ‘Engineering Mathematics 8th Edition’ are over 1850 further problems arranged regularly

throughout the text within 243 Practice Exercises. The solutions for all 1850 of these further

problems has been prepared in this document.

CONTENTS

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Chapter 1 Revision of fractions, decimals and percentages (Exercises 1 to 4) 1
Chapter 2 Indices, standard form and engineering notation (Exercises 5 to 13)
16
Chapter 3 Binary, octal and hexadecimal (Exercises 14 to 19) 39
Chapter 4 Calculations and evaluation of formulae (Exercises 20 to 23) 63
Chapter 5 Algebra (Exercises 24 to 28) 77
Chapter 6 Further algebra (Exercises 29 to 31) 90
Chapter 7 Partial fractions (Exercises 32 to 34) 99
Chapter 8 Solving simple equations (Exercises 35 to 38) 98
Chapter 9 Transposition of formulae (Exercises 39 to 41)
124
Chapter 10 Solving simultaneous equations (Exercises 42 to 45) 141
Chapter 11 Solving quadratic equations (Exercises 46 to 50) 155
Chapter 12 Inequalities (Exercises 51 to 55) 173
Chapter 13 Logarithms (Exercises 56 to 58) 184
Chapter 14 Exponential functions (Exercises 59 to 63) 197
Chapter 15 Number sequences (Exercises 64 to 68) 220
Chapter 16 The binomial series (Exercises 69 to 72) 233
Chapter 17 Solving equations by iterative methods (Exercise 73) 247
Chapter 18 Areas of common shapes (Exercises 74 to 77) 256
Chapter 19 The circle and its properties (Exercises 78 to 81) 268

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Chapter 20 Volumes and surface areas of common solids (Exercises 82 to 87) 280
Chapter 21 Irregular areas and volumes and mean values (Exercises 88 to 90) 309
Chapter 22 Introduction to trigonometry (Exercises 91 to 96) 318
Chapter 23 Trigonometric waveforms (Exercises 97 to 99) 340
Chapter 24 Cartesian and polar co-ordinates (Exercises 100 to 101) 351
Chapter 25 Triangles and some practical applications (Exercises 102 to 105) 359
Chapter 26 Trigonometric identities and equations (Exercises 106 to 110) 377
Chapter 27 Compound angles (Exercises 111 to 115) 394
Chapter 28 Straight line graphs (Exercises 116 to 117) 422
Chapter 29 Reduction of non-linear laws to linear form (Exercises 118 to 119) 441
Chapter 30 Graphs with logarithmic scales (Exercises 120 to 122) 458
Chapter 31 Graphical solution of equations (Exercises 123 to 126) 467
Chapter 32 Functions and their graphs (Exercises 127 to 129) 487
Chapter 33 Complex numbers (Exercises 130 to 134) 498
Chapter 34 De Moivre’s theorem (Exercise 135 to 136) 520
Chapter 35 Vectors (Exercises 137 to 141) 528
Chapter 36 Methods of adding alternating waveforms (Exercises 142 to 146) 544
Chapter 37 Presentation of statistical data (Exercises 147 to 149) 565
Chapter 38 Mean, median, mode and standard deviation (Exercises 150 to 153) 582
Chapter 39 Probability (Exercises 154 to 157) 594
Chapter 40 The binomial and Poisson distribution (Exercises 158 to 159) 605
Chapter 41 The normal distribution (Exercises 160 to 161) 613
Chapter 42 Linear correlation (Exercise 162) 626
Chapter 43 Linear regression (Exercise 163) 632
Chapter 44 Sampling and estimation theories (Exercises 164 to 166) 641
Chapter 45 Introduction to differentiation (Exercises 167 to 172) 654
Chapter 46 Methods of differentiation (Exercises 173 to 177) 668
Chapter 47 Some applications of differentiation (Exercises 178 to 184) 685
Chapter 48 Maclaurins series (Exercise 185) 718
Chapter 49 Differentiation of parametric equations (Exercises 186 to 187) 724
Chapter 50 Differentiation of implicit functions (Exercises 188 to 190) 733
Chapter 51 Logarithmic differentiation (Exercises 191 to 193) 741
Chapter 52 Standard integration (Exercises 194 to 195) 750
Chapter 53 Integration using algebraic substitutions (Exercises 196 to 197) 759
Chapter 54 Integration using trigonometric substitutions (Exercises 198 to 202) 768
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Chapter 55 Integration using partial fractions (Exercises 203 to 205) 779
Chapter 56 The t = tan /2 substitution (Exercises 206 to 207) 787
Chapter 57 Integration by parts (Exercises 208 to 209) 794
Chapter 58 Numerical integration (Exercises 210 to 212) 807
Chapter 59 Areas under and between curves (Exercises 213 to 215) 820
Chapter 60 Mean and root mean square values (Exercises 216 to 217) 832
Chapter 61 Volumes of solids of revolution (Exercises 218 to 219) 839
Chapter 62 Centroids of simple shapes (Exercises 220 to 222) 851
Chapter 63 Second moments of area (Exercises 223 to 224) 867
Chapter 64 Introduction to differential equations (Exercises 225 to 228) 876
Chapter 65 Boolean algebra and logic circuits (Exercises 229 to 234) 892
Chapter 66 The theory of matrices and determinants (Exercises 235 to 239) 920
Chapter 67 The solution of simultaneous equations by matrices and determinants
(Exercises 240 to 243) 933

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