todai-math

2022 todai-engineering-math__paper1

2 maths questions

QI Stationary points and optimisation Geometric or applied optimisation problem View
Consider an ellipse $\frac{x^{2}}{a^{2}} + \frac{y^{2}}{b^{2}} = 1$ in the $xy$-plane. Here, $a$ and $b$ are constants satisfying $a > b > 0$. Answer the following questions.
  1. Find the equation of the tangent line at a point $(X, Y)$ on the ellipse in the first quadrant.
  2. The tangent line obtained in Question I. 1 intersects the $x$- and $y$-axes. Find the coordinates $(X, Y)$ at the tangent point that minimizes the length of the segment connecting the two intersects and obtain the minimum length of the segment.
  3. Consider a region bounded by the segment obtained in Question I. 2 and the $x$- and $y$-axes, and let $C_{1}$ be a cone formed by rotating the region around the $x$-axis. Next, let $C_{2}$ be a cone with the maximum volume while having the same surface area (including a base area) as the cone $C_{1}$. Find $\frac{S_{2}}{S_{1}}$, where $S_{1}$ and $S_{2}$ are the base areas of the cones $C_{1}$ and $C_{2}$, respectively.
QII Second order differential equations Solving second-order ODE via integral transform View
Consider a real-valued function $f(t)$ for a real variable $t$ defined for $0 \leq t < \infty$. The Laplace transform is defined as
$$\mathcal{L}[f(t)] = F(s) = \int_{0}^{\infty} e^{-st} f(t) \, \mathrm{d}t \tag{1}$$
where $s$ is a complex variable whose real part is positive. Under the condition that the improper integral in the right-hand side does not diverge, answer the following questions.
  1. When the conditions $$\lim_{t \rightarrow \infty} e^{-st} f(t) = 0 \quad \text{and} \quad \lim_{t \rightarrow \infty} e^{-st} f^{\prime}(t) = 0$$ are satisfied, show the following equation holds: $$\mathcal{L}\left[f^{\prime\prime}(t)\right] = -f^{\prime}(0) - s f(0) + s^{2} \mathcal{L}[f(t)]$$ Note that $f^{\prime}(t)$ and $f^{\prime\prime}(t)$ are defined as $$f^{\prime}(t) = \frac{\mathrm{d}f(t)}{\mathrm{d}t} \quad \text{and} \quad f^{\prime\prime}(t) = \frac{\mathrm{d}^{2}f(t)}{\mathrm{d}t^{2}}$$
  2. Calculate the Laplace transform of $g(t) = e^{-at}\cos(\omega t)$ and $h(t) = e^{-at}\sin(\omega t)$ defined for $0 \leq t < \infty$ by showing derivation processes using Equation (1). Note that $a$ and $\omega$ are positive real numbers.
  3. Solve the differential equation $$f^{\prime\prime}(t) + 6f^{\prime}(t) + 13f(t) = 0$$ where the initial values are $f(0) = 5$ and $f^{\prime}(0) = -11$.