School of Arts, Science, Humanities and wishes to modify this demand equation and decided to increase

Education the value of p by 7 where the demand get zero in order to get
Second CIA Test – Jan 2022 some gain. You just help him to derive the demand equation with
Course Code: MAT101R01 this imposed condition.
Course Name: Engineering Mathematics - I
An under graduate student, for a fun, wish to modify the demand
Duration: 90 minutes Max
equation given in question number 7 as a equation with the
Marks: 50
demand get zero for some price values and its reciprocal price
8. values. What are the possible demand equations he can
PART A 10 x 2 = 20 Marks create?(Swapping of coefficients is allowed only between the
Answer all the questions first and last coefficients, similarly the second and last but one
1. Depict the geometrical interpretation of eigen vectors. coefficients).
Suppose you are diagonalising a matrix A by similarity or The height, h metres above the water, of a stone thrown from a
2. orthogonal transformation. What are the significant relations you bridge is modeled by the function h(t ) = 8t 4 + 4t 3 − 18t 2 + 11t − 2 ,
can get for the matrix A and the obtained diagonal matrix D?
9. where t is the time in seconds after the stone is thrown. Find the
Any significant results do you get when determining eigen values amount of time it takes for the stone to hit the water below the
0 1 bridge. It is to be noted that the above polynomial has three equal
3. and eigen vectors of the matrix Q =  ? roots.
 −1 0 
Determine the value of the sum of the cubes of the roots of
Suppose one of the eigen value of a linear transformation matrix 10. x 3 − 6 x 2 + 11x − 6 = 0
is zero. What do you infer about the matrix from this and what
4. will be your interpretation if each row of the matrix represents
each vector? PART B 3 x 10 = 30 Marks
Answer all the questions
After the rotation of a quadratic surface Q through a rotation A population of frogs has the following characteristics.
5. angle θ , the canonical form you are getting is −2 x + 3 y + 6 z
2 2 2
a. Half of the frogs survive their first year. Of those, half survive
then what will be the nature, rank, index and signature of Q? their second year. The maximum life span is 3 years.
The height, h, of a ball t seconds after it is thrown is modeled by b. During the first year, the frogs produce no offspring. The
the function h (t ) = 27t 3 + 42t 2 − 28t − 8 , where h is the height of average number of offspring is 4 during the second year and 10
during the third year. The population now consists of 20 frogs in
6. the ball from the ground in meters. Find the number of seconds it 11.
the first age class, 20 in the second, and 16 in the third.
takes the ball to reach the ground. It is to be noted that roots of
(i) How many frogs will there be in each age class in 1 year?
the above polynomial are in Geometric progression.
(ii) Find a stable age distribution vector for the above population
A commodity seller has drawn the demand equation d(p) for his growth model if the average number of offspring is 6 during the
product based on the selling price p and is given by second year, 8 during the third year and no offspring during the
7.
d ( p ) = 3 p 4 + 7 p 3 − 15 p 2 + p − 2 . Later he identified, with this first year.
equation, the demand get zero even at the lowest price. So he Please scroll down…
 Show that the ellipsoid shown below would be the required
surface when we rotate the quadratic surface
2 x 2 + 5 y 2 + 3z 2 + 4 xy = 0 to eliminate the xy term. Also write the
rotation angle.

12.

We wish to analyze a proportional control feedback system as

depicted below. The plant is a flexible structure which we will
need to ensure is stable and appropriately controlled.

13.

The characteristic equation of the closed loop transfer function of

the system is h( s ) = s 6 + 3s 5 + 4s 4 + 6s 3 + 5s 2 + 3s + 2 . Construct
the Routh array for the above closed loop system and determine
whether the system is stable.