CALCULUS AND LINEAR ALGEBRA (18MAT11)

MODULE 1: DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS-1

Problems on Polar curves
d
1. Prove that with usual notations tan   r (Very Important)
dr
a b
2. Find the angle of intersection between the curves r  r
1  cos  1  cos 
3. Find the angle of intersection between the curves r 2 sin 2  4 r 2  16 sin 2
4. Find the angle of intersection between the curves r  a 1 sin   r  a 1 cos  
a a
5. Find the angle of intersection between the curves r  &r 
1 1 2
a
6. Find the angle of intersection between the curves r  a log  r 
log 
2
1 1 1  dr 
7. Prove with usual notations 2  2  4   (Very Important)
p r r  d 
8. Find the pedal equation for the curve r m cos m  a m .
2a
9. Find the pedal equation for the curve  1  cos θ .
r
10. Find the pedal equation for the curve r m  a m cos m  sin m 

Problems on Radius of curvature

  x 
11. Find the radius of curvature of the curve y  a log  sec  .
  a 
 3a 3a 
12. Find the radius of curvature of the curve x 3  y 3  3axy at  , 
 2 2
13. Find the radius of curvature of the curve a 2 y  x 3  a 3 at the point where the curve meets x
axis.

14. Find the radius of curvature of the curve x 2 y  a x 2  y 2  at  2a , 2a
15. Show that for the curve r 1  cos    2a ,  2 varies as r 3
16. Find the radius of curvature for the curve r n  a n sin n
17. Show that for the curve r n  a n cos nθ varies conversely as r n1

Problems on Evolutes and circle of curvature

18. Find the coordinates of centre of curvature at any point of the parabola y 2  4ax and find
its evolute.
19. Show that the equation of the evolute of the ellipse x  a cos  and y  b sin  is

ax 2 3  by 2 3 
 a2  b2 
2
3
.
a a
20. Find the circle of curvature at the point p ,  of the curve x y  a.
4 4
3 3
21. Find the circle of curvature of the curve x 3  y 3  3xy at the point  ,  on it.
2 2
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Problems on Maclaurin’s Series
1. Expand 1 sin 2 x up to 4thdegree terms using Maclaurin’s series.
2. Expand log sec x  up to the term containing x 4 using Maclaurin’s series.
3. Expand log1  sin x  up to the terms containing third degree using Maclaurin’sseries
4. Expand log1  cos x  up to the terms containing third degree using Maclaurin’s series

Problems on Indeterminate forms

Evaluate lim tan x 
cos x
5.

x
2
1
 ax  bx  cx  d x x
6. Evaluate lim   (Very Important)
x 0
 4 
1
 2 x  3x  4 x x
7. Evaluate lim   (Very Important)
x 0
 3 
1
 sin x  x 2
8. lim  
x 0
 x 
1
 tan x  x 2
9. Evaluate lim  
x 0
 x 
Problems on Partial differentiation

 2v 1  v 1  2v
10. If V  e cosa log r  Prove that
a
  0
 r 2 r  r r 2  2
z z
11. If z  e axby f ax  by  prove that b a  2abz
x y
 2u  2u
12. If u  x 3  3xy 2  x  e x cos y  1 show that  0
x 2 y 2
Problems on Composite Function

1 u 1 u 1 u
13. If u  f 2 x  3 y, 3 y  4 z, 4 z  2 x  show that   0 (Very Important)
2 x 3 y 4 z
x y z u u u
14. If u  f  , ,  show that x y z 0 (Very Important)
 y z x x y z
 y x z x u u u
15. If u  f  ,  find x 2  y2  z2 (Very Important)
 xy xz  x y z

Problems on Jacobian
 u , v, w
16. If u  x 2  y 2  z 2 v  x y  y z  z x w  x  y  z find (Very Important)
  x, y , z 
 u ,v , w
17. If u  x1 x2 v  x2 x3 w  x3 x1 find (Very Important)
 x1 , x 2 , x3 
   x, y , z 
18. If x  r sin  cos  y  r sin  sin  z  r cos  find (Very Important)
 r , ,  

yz zx xy  u , v, w
19. If u  v w find (Very Important)
x y z   x, y , z 

Problems on Maxima and Minima

20. Find the Extreme values for the function f  x 3  y 3  3 x  12 y  20

21. Find the Extreme values for the function f  x 3  3 x y 2  15 x 2  15 y 2  72 x
22. Find the Extreme values of z  x 3  y 3  3 ax y , a  0
Problems on Lagrange’s Multipliers
23. Find the minimum value of x 2  y 2  z 2 when x  y  z  3a using Lagrange’s
multipliers method
24. Find the stationary points of x 2 y 3 z 4 subject to the condition x  y  z  5 using
Lagrange’s multipliers method
25. The temperature T at any point x, y, z  in space is T  400xyz 2 . Find the highest
temperature at the surface of the unit sphere x 2  y 2  z 2  1 .

MODULE 3: INTEGRAL CALCULUS

Problems on triple integration
1 1 1
1. Evaluate    x  y  z  dxdydz .
0 0 0

1 2 2

x
2
2. Evaluate yz dxdydz .
0 0 1

a x x y

 e
x y  z
3. Evaluate dzdydx .
0 0 0

1 1 x 2 1 x 2  y 2

4. Evaluate  
0 0
 xyz dzdydx .
0

Problems on Change of order integration

1 x

5. Evaluate   xy dydx
0 x
by changing the order of integration

1 x

6. Evaluate   xy dydx
0 x2
by changing the order of integration

Problems on Changing to Polar coordinates


 dx dy by changing to polar coordinates
e
 x2  y2
7. Evaluate
0 0

a a2  x2
8. Evaluate  
a o
x 2  y 2 dy dx by changing to polar coordinates
Problems on Application
x2 y2
9. Find the area of ellipse   1 by double integration. (Very Important)
a2 b2
10. Find the volume generated by the revolution of the Cardiode r  a1  cos   about the
initial line. (Very
Important)
11. Find the volume of the tetrahedron bounded by the planes
x y z
x 0 , y 0 ,z 0 ,    1 . (Very Important)
a b c
Problems on Beta and Gamma function
mn 
12. Prove that  m , n   . (Very Important)
m  n 
1
13. Prove that      . (Very Important)
2
 
2
d 2
14. Show that 
0 sin 
  sin  d   .
0
(Very Important)

 
1
1
 x 1 x dx using β &  functions.
6 2 2
15. Evaluate (Very Important)
0
4

 x 4  x 
3 5
16. Evaluate 2 2 dx using β &  functions. (Very Important)
0
2a

x 2ax  x 2 dx using β &  functions.

2
17. Evaluate (Very Important)
0

MODULE 4: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

Problems on Exact and reducible to exact differential equation

dy y cos x  sin y  y
1. Solve 
dx sin x  x cos y  x
2.  
Solve 4 xy  3 y 2  x dx  xx  2 y dy  0
3. Solve x 2

 y 2  x dx  xydy  0

Problems on Bernoulli’s differential equation

4. 
Solve y 2 x y  e x dx  e x dy  0 
dy
5. Solve x 3  x 2 y   y 4 cos x
dx
dy
6. Solve tan y  tan x  cos y cos 2 x
dx

Problems on Orthogonal trajectories

7. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves 𝑦 2 = 4𝑎𝑥 where “a “ is a parameter.
8. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 = 𝑎2 where “a “ is a
parameter.
9. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves y 2  cx 3
10. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves r n  a n cos n where “a “ is a
parameter
11. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves r n cos n  a n where “a “ is a
parameter

Problems on application of differential equation

12. A body originally at 80  C cools down to 60  C in 20 minutes, the temperature of the air
being 40  C. What will be the temperature of the body after 40 minutes from the
original.
13. If the temperature of the air is 30  C and a metal ball cools from 100  C to 70  C in 15
minutes, find how long it will take for the metal ball to reach the temperature of 40  C.
14. Consider the circuit consisting of a resistance R and inductance L in series with a
voltage source E. Find the current in the circuit.

Problems on Solvable for p

15. Solve p 2  2 py cot x  y 2

16. Solve p p  y   xx  y 

17. Solve p 2  2 p cosh x  1  0

18. Solve p 2  px  y   xy  0

Problems on Clairaut’s equation

19. Obtain the general solution and singular solution of xp 3  yp 2  1  0 (Very Important)
20. Obtain the general solution and singular solution of sin px cos y  cos px sin y  p
(Very Important)
21. Solve the equation  px  y  py  x   2 p using the substitution X  x , Y  y 2
2

(Very Important)

MODULE 5: LINEAR ALGEBRA

(Finding the rank of a matrix is compulsory problem, they can give any matrix,
Practice row operation it will necessary for question number 1,2,3,5 and 6).

1. Find the rank of the matrix

 91 92 93 94 95 
2 3  1  1 92
1  1  2  4  93 94 95 96 
i) A    ii) A  93 94 95 96 97  (Very Important)
3 1 3  2  
  94 95 96 97 98 
6 3 0 7
95 96 97 98 99 

2. Solve by Gauss elimination method

i) 2 x1  x2  4 x3  12 ; 4 x1  11x2  x3  33 ; 8 x1  3x2  2 x3  20

ii) 2 x  5 y  7 z  52 2x  y  z  0 x yz 9
iii) 2 x  y  3z  1  3x  4 y  5 z  0 x  3 y  6z  0
3. Solve by Gauss Jordan method
i) x yz 8  x  y  2 z  4 3x  5 y  7  14
ii) 2x  3 y  z  5 4 x  4 y  3z  3 2x  3 y  2z  2
4. Solve by Gauss Siedel method
i) 20 x  1y  2 z  17 3x  20 y  z  18 2 x  3 y  20 z  25
ii) x  1y  54 z  110 27 x  6 y  z  85 6 x  15 y  2 z  72

(From the above questions 2,3 and 4 you will get TWO compulsory problems, learn the
procedure how to solve, especially row operation. In Gauss siedel check diagonally
dominant condition and then solve.)

(One compulsory question from consistency of a matrix).

5. Test for consistency and solve the following system of equations

x  y  z  6, x  y  2 z  5, 3x  y  z  8
6. For what value of  and  system of equation processes i) Unique solution ii) infinite
solution and iii) no solution
i) 2 x  3 y  5z  9, 7 x  3 y  2 z  8, 2 x  3 y  z   (Very Important)
ii) x  y  z  6, x  2 y  3z  10, x  2 y  z   (Very Important)

(Finding Largest Eigen value and corresponding Eigen vector of a matrix by power
method is compulsory problem, they can give any matrix)

7. Find the largest Eigen value and the corresponding Eigen vector of the matrix by using the
power method
2 −1 0
−1 2 −1 by taking the initial vector as 1 1 1 carry out 5-iterations.
T
i)
0 −1 2
(Very Important)
6 −2 2
−2 3 −1 by taking the initial vector as 1 0 0 Perform 4 iterations.
T
ii)
2 −1 3
(Very Important)
25 1 2
iii) 1 3 0 Take 1,0,0 𝑇 as initial eigen vector. Perform 6 iterations
2 0 −4
(Very Important)

(Diagonalization of a 2X2 matrix is compulsory problem, they can give any matrix)

−19 7
8. Diagonalize the matrix . (Very Important)
−42 16
9. Reduce the matrix 𝐴 = 1 1
to diagonal form (Very Important)
3 −1
−1 2
10. Reduce the matrix 𝐴 = to diagonal form (Very Important)
2 −1