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B Scmathematics Solid Geometry

This document outlines the syllabus and sample exam questions for a first year mathematics course covering solid geometry. The syllabus is divided into 5 units covering planes, lines, spheres, spheres and cones, and cylinders. The sample exam consists of 2 sections - Section A contains 8 short answer questions testing concepts from the units, and Section B contains 4 longer answer questions, with students required to answer 1 from each unit. Questions test key concepts like finding equations of planes/spheres/cones, angles between planes, shortest distances between lines, and properties of different solid geometric shapes.

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B Scmathematics Solid Geometry

This document outlines the syllabus and sample exam questions for a first year mathematics course covering solid geometry. The syllabus is divided into 5 units covering planes, lines, spheres, spheres and cones, and cylinders. The sample exam consists of 2 sections - Section A contains 8 short answer questions testing concepts from the units, and Section B contains 4 longer answer questions, with students required to answer 1 from each unit. Questions test key concepts like finding equations of planes/spheres/cones, angles between planes, shortest distances between lines, and properties of different solid geometric shapes.

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B.A./B.Sc.

FIRST YEAR MATHEMATICS SYLLABUS PAPER - II


(SEMESTER – II)
SOLID GEOMETRY
UNIT – I (12 hrs) : The Plane :
Equation of plane in terms of its intercepts on the axis, Equations of the plane through the given points,
Length of the perpendicular from a given point to a given plane, Distance between parallel planes, System of
Planes.
Planes bisecting the angles between two Planes. Pair of Planes.

UNIT – II (12 hrs) : The Line :


Equation of a line; Angle between a line and a plane; The condition for a line to lie in a plane, Image of a
point in a plane, Image of point in a line coplanar Lines

Shortest distance between two lines; The length and equations of the line of shortest distance between two
straight lines; Length of the perpendicular from a given point to a given line.

UNIT – III (10 hrs) : Sphere :


Definition and equation of the sphere; the sphere through four given points; Plane sections of a sphere;
Intersection of two spheres; Equation of a circle; great circle, small circle; Intersection of a sphere and a line.

UNIT – IV (10 hrs) : Sphere :


Equation of Tangent plane; Angle of intersection of two spheres; Orthogonal spheres; Radical plane;
Coaxial system of spheres; Limiting Points.

UNIT – V (16 hrs) : Cones :


Definitions of a cone; Equation of the cone with a given vertex and guiding curve; Enveloping cone, to
Find Vertex of a cone, Reciprocal Cone, Right circular cone, Equation of the Right Circular cone one with a given
vertex axis and semi vertical angle the cylinder.
Cylinder :
Definition of a cylinder, Equation to the cylinder, Enveloping cylinder, right circular cylinders equation of
the right circular cylinder.

Prescribed Text Book : Scope as in Analytical Solid Geometry by Shanti Narayan and P.K. Mittal Published by
S. Chand & Company Ltd. Seventeenth Edition.
Sections :- 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1 to 3.7, 6.1 to 6.9, 7.1 to 7.4, 7.6 to 7.8.

Reference Books : 1. V Krishna Murthy & Others “A text book of Mathematics for BA/B.Sc Vol 1, Published
by S. Chand & Company, New Delhi.
2. P.K. Jain and Khaleel Ahmed, “A text Book of Analytical Geometry of Three
Dimensions”, Wiley Eastern Ltd., 1999.
3. Co-ordinate Geometry of two and three dimensions by P. Balasubrahmanyam,
K.Y. Subrahmanyam, G.R. Venkataraman published by Tata-MC Gran-Hill Publishers
Company Ltd., New Delhi.
Note : Concentrate on Problematic parts in all above units.
B.A./B.Sc. FIRST YEAR MATHEMATICS SYLLABUS PAPER - II
I YEAR SEMESTER-II MODEL QUESTION PAPER
SOLID GEOMETRY
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks : 75

Section-A
Answer any FIVE of the following Questions : (5 x 5= 25 Marks)
1. Find the Equation of the plane through the point (-1,3,2) and perpendicular to the planes
x  2 y  2 z  5 and 3x  3 y  2 z  8 .

2. Find the angles between the planes x  2 y  3z  5, 3x  3 y  z  9 .

x 1 y  2 z  5
3. Show that the line   lies in the plane x+2y-z=0.
1 3 5

4. Find the centre and radius of the sphere 2 x2  2 y 2  2 z 2  2 x  4 y  2 z  1  0 .

5. Find the equation of the sphere through the circle x2  y 2  z 2  9 , 2x  3 y  4z  5 and the
point (1,2,3)

6. Find the equation of the tangent plane to the sphere 3x2  3 y 2  3z 2  2 x  3 y  4 z  22  0


at the point (1,2,3)

7. Find the equation of the cone which passes through the three co-ordinate axis and the lines
x y z x y z
  and   .
1 2 3 2 1 1

x y z
8. Find the equation of the cylinder whose generators are parallel to   and which
1 2 3

Passes through the curve x2  y 2  16, z  0 .

Section - B
Answer any ONE Question from each unit. (5 x 10 =50 Marks)
UNIT - I
9. (a) Show that the following points are coplanar  6,3, 2 ,  13,17, 1 ,  5,7,3 .

(OR)

(b) Prove that Equation 2 x 2  6 y 2  12 z 2  18 yz  2 zx  xy  0 represents a pair of planes and


find the angle between them.
UNIT - II

10. (a) Find the image of the point (2,-1,3) in the plane 3x-2y+z=9.

(OR)

(b) Find the length and equation to the line of shortest distance between the lines
x  2 y  3 z 1 x  4 y  5 z  2
  ,   .
3 4 2 4 5 3
UNIT - III
11. (a) A plane passes through a fixed point (a,b,c) and intersects the axis in A,B,C show that
A B C
the locus of the center of the sphere OABC is    2.
x y z

(OR)

(b) Find whether the following circle is a great circle or small circle
x2  y 2  z 2  4 x  6 y  8z  4  0, x  y  z  3 .
UNIT – IV
12. (a) Find the equation of the sphere which touches the plane 3x+2y-z+2=0 at (1,-2,1) and
cuts orthogonally the sphere x2  y 2  z 2  4 x  6 y  4  0 .

(OR)

(b) Find limiting points of the co axial system of spheres


 x2  y2  z2  20x  30 y  40z  29   2x  3y  4z   0 .
UNIT – V
13. (a) Find the vertex of the cone 7 x2  2 y 2  2 z 2  10 zx  10 xy  2bx  2 y  2 z 17  0 .

(OR)

(b) Find the equation to the right circular cylinder whose guiding circle x2  y 2  z 2  9,
x  y  z  3.

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