Addis Ababa University

Faculty of Science Mathematics Department

Applied mathematics III assignment I Submission Date: Saturday July 10/2022

Instruction: Do the following questions in a group of 5 or 6 students showing all the necessary steps clearly

1. For a circular helix C parameterized by the vector r (t )  2 cos ti  2 sin tj  3tk Compute the following
at any t value
i) tangential unit vector iv) Normal unit vector
ii) Binomial vector v) Curvature value
iii) Torsion value
2. A tank contains a salt water solution consisting initially of 20 kg of salt dissolved into 10 liter of water. Fresh
water is being poured into the tank at a rate of 3 liter/min and the solution
(kept uniform by stirring) is flowing out at 2 liter/min. Find the amount of salt in the tank after 5 minutes
and draw also the plot of the amount of salt Q(t) in the tank as time t moves on.

dQ
{ use  ( rate at which salt is leaving) }
dt

3. The figure below shows an electromotive force E (supplied by a battery or generator), a resistor R, an
inductor L, and a capacitor C, in series. If the charge on the capacitor at time t is Q=Q(t) , then the current is
the rate of change of Q with respect to t i.e I = dQ/dt .
Kirchhoff’s voltage law says that the sum of voltage drops is equal to the supplied voltage:

d 2Q dQ 1
L 2
R  Q  E (t )
dt dt C
Voltages Drop  Supplied Voltages
 Find the charge and current at time t in the circuit if R =40 ohm, L=1Henry, C= 16x 10-4Farad,
E(t) = 100cos(10t) volt and take the initial charge and the current to be zero.

4. Suppose an Air force jet is flying at an altitude of 30,000feet above sea level encounters a fault in the air and
is about to crash and the pilot decides to jump off from the emergency exit with a velocity of 150 feet/sec
and at an angle of 450 above the horizontal. (Assuming there is failure in the parachute and no air
resistance, g=32 feet/sec2 ),
a) How long the pilot will be airborne( the pilot time of flight)
b) Determine whether the pilot lands on the island or falls into the river where the island was located at an
assume distance of 5000 feet( the horizontal distance travelled by the pilot)
c) The pilot final velocity at impact?
d) The vertical distance travelled (maximum height) by the pilot.

Note: Neglecting air resistance, the path of a projectile launched from an initial height h with
Initial speed vo and an angle of elevation θ is described by the vector function

r (t )  (v0 cos )ti  [h  (v0 sin )t  0.5gt 2 ] j where g is the acceleration due to gravity.

5. Use the divergence theorem to evaluate   F . n ds if


F  4 xi  2 y 2 j  z 2 k and 

is the surface bounding the region x  y  4, z  0 and z  3

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