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This document provides a tutorial with 5 mathematical prerequisites: 1. It asks to find magnitudes and angles of two vectors, their dot product, and to draw the vectors. 2. It asks to find the volume of a parallelepiped spanned by three vectors. 3. It asks to Taylor expand sin(x) and cos^2(x) up to order O(x^5) around x = 0 and π/2. 4. It provides a differential equation and asks to derive its series solution using two different methods. 5. It asks to determine the equation of a line segment between two points, convert it to parametric form, and evaluate a

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This document provides a tutorial with 5 mathematical prerequisites: 1. It asks to find magnitudes and angles of two vectors, their dot product, and to draw the vectors. 2. It asks to find the volume of a parallelepiped spanned by three vectors. 3. It asks to Taylor expand sin(x) and cos^2(x) up to order O(x^5) around x = 0 and π/2. 4. It provides a differential equation and asks to derive its series solution using two different methods. 5. It asks to determine the equation of a line segment between two points, convert it to parametric form, and evaluate a

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Tutorial-0 for PH11001/Spring2018

July 26, 2019

Mathematical prerequisites:

1. Consider a vector in the 2d cartesian coordinates


~ = 8x̂ + 2ŷ and B
A ~ = 4x̂ − 16ŷ
~ and |B|)
(a) Find the magnitude (|A| ~ of the two vectors.
~ with the x axis.
(b) What is the angle of the vector A
~B
(c) Find the dot product A. ~ What does this signify?
(d) From the above results draw the two vectors on a two dimensional cartesian coordinate space.
2. Find the volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the three vectors
A~1 = 5x̂ + 5ŷ + 2ẑ and A~2 = 5x̂ − 3ŷ − 5ẑ and A~3 = 1x̂ + 2ŷ + 3ẑ

3. Taylor expand the function sin(x) and cos2 (x) upto order O(x5 ) around x = 0, π/2.
4. Solve using the series method:
d2 x(t)
+ β 2 x = 0. (1)
dt2
P∞
(a) Assume x(t) = n=0 an tn and derive a recursion relation between an+2 and an
(b) Use this to get the series solution to the differential equation in terms of the unknown constants a0 and a1
(c) Use the substitutions a0 → A cos φ and a1 /β → −A sin φ to show that
x(t) = A cos(βt + φ)
(d) Method 2 : Multiply Eqn. (1) with 2ẋ ≡ 2dx/dt and write it as a total time derivative. Solve this to obtain:
ẋ2 + β 2 x2 = k 2
Rearrange this to the integral form Z Z
dx
dt = p ,
k − β 2 x2
2

perform integral to get desired result.


5. Determine the equation of a line segment going trough points (5, 3) and (−1, 4) in the x-y plane. Comverter the
equation in the parametric form in terms of a single parameter 0 < t < 1. Evaluate the following line intigral
between these points: Z
x3 ds
C
Utilize the fact that, s 2  2
ds dx dy
= +
dt dt dt

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