Exercises1 Math
Exercises1 Math
Wolle
Winter 2021 Exercises 1 21.01.2021
Exercises 1
Exercise 1
√
Expand the function f (x) = c x2 + c2 m2 up to second order in x2 .
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Solve
dy
= y 2 − 4, subject to y(0) = −2.
dx
(Hint: Use partial fractions.) Discuss the result.
Exercise 4
Solve
dy
= 5y.
dx
(Hint: Use the integrating factor.)
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
By using moment generating functions, Show that for two independent normally distributed varia-
bles X and Y :
a) X + Y is normally distributed;
b) the mean is (µX + µY ) and the variance is (σX
2
+ σY2 ).
Exercise 7
In a single station service facility to be considered as a queueing system, the mean arrival rate λ is
one customer every 4 minutes and the mean service time µ is 2.5 minutes. Find:
Exercise 8
Consider a Corona test. The probability for a person being infected is 0.2%. A given individual test
will correctly identify the infection with 95% probability. With 2% probability non-infected persons
will be wrongly identied as infected.
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a) Now, someone is getting tested and the test result is positive. What is the probability that
the person is really infected?
b) Due to an outbreak, ocials decide to test a whole city with 10000 inhabitants. How many
people a wrongly identied as infected and how many infected persons are not correctly identied
as either positive or negative?
c) Consider an intensive care unit with 100 patients where the infection rate is 80%. The hos-
pital uses the test described above. What is the probability that an infection is not recognized?
Exercise 9
Exercise 10
where R is the radius, H is the hight of the pillbox, and J0 (R) ≈ 2.4048 is the lowest root of the
Bessel function. Use Lagrange multipliers λ to nd the ratio R/H that will minimize the energy E
for a xed volume V .
Exercise 11
Consider the following system with three states 1,2,3 and given transition rates wij :
w12 P2 = w21 P1
w23 P3 = w32 P2
w31 P1 = w13 P3
Set up the Master equation and solve it for steady state condition (detailed balance).
Exercise 12
Exercise 13
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√
√1 8 √0
A = 8 1 8
√
0 8 1
Exercise 14
Exercise 15
∇2 ψ + k 2 ψ = 0.
Use circular cylindrical coordinates ρ, ϕ, z with x = ρ cos ϕ, y = ρ sin ϕ, z = z for separation of this
equation with ψ = P (ρ)Φ(ϕ)Z(z).
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