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Tutorial 7

This document is a tutorial for Engineering Mathematics II, focusing on vector differentiation and related concepts. It includes problems on identifying scalar and vector functions, analyzing temperature fields, calculating velocity and acceleration, and finding directional derivatives. The tutorial also covers gradient calculations and the direction of heat flow in temperature fields.

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Tutorial 7

This document is a tutorial for Engineering Mathematics II, focusing on vector differentiation and related concepts. It includes problems on identifying scalar and vector functions, analyzing temperature fields, calculating velocity and acceleration, and finding directional derivatives. The tutorial also covers gradient calculations and the direction of heat flow in temperature fields.

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Amrita School of Engineering

B.Tech. II Semester
23MAT130 - Engineering Mathematics II
Tutorial 7
(Vector differentiation- Vector and scalar functions, Velocity and acceleration, Gradient of a scalar
field, Gradient as a surface normal, Directional derivative)

1. Determine which among the following functions are scalar or vector functions.
(a) 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) = 𝑥 2 𝑖̂ − 𝑦 2 𝑗̂ (b) 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) = 𝑥 2 − 𝑦 2 .
2. Let the temperature T in a body be independent of z so that it is given by a scalar function
𝑇 = 𝑇(𝑥, 𝑦). Identify the Isotherms and sketch some of them:
(a) 𝑇(𝑥, 𝑦) = 4𝑥 2 + 16𝑦 2
(b) 𝑇 = 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 + 4𝑦.
3. Sketch figures for the following vector function. Try to interpret the field of V as a velocity field.
(a) 𝑉(𝑥, 𝑦) = −𝑦𝑖̂ + 𝑥𝑗̂ (b) 𝑉(𝑥, 𝑦) = 2𝑥𝑖̂ − 𝑦𝑗̂.
4. Suppose a particle moves along the curve 𝑥 = 2𝑠𝑖𝑛3𝑡, 𝑦 = 2𝑐𝑜𝑠3𝑡, 𝑧 = 8𝑡 . Find the velocity and
acceleration of the particle at 𝑡 = 0.

5. Given the velocity potential of a flow, find the velocity 𝑣 = ∇𝑓 of the field and its velocity value
𝑣(𝑃) at 𝑃
𝜋
(a) 𝑓 = 𝑒 𝑥 cos 𝑦 𝑎𝑡 𝑃 : (1, 2 ) (b) 𝑓 = 𝑥 2 − 6𝑥 − 𝑦 2 𝑎𝑡 (−1, 5).

6. The force in an electrostatic field given by 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) has the direction of the gradient. Find 𝛻𝑓 and
its value at P
(a) 𝑓 = 𝑥 2 𝑦 2 + 𝑧 at P(-1, 2, 0) (b) 𝑓 = 𝑒 𝑥𝑦𝑧 at P(1, 1, 1).
7. Experiments show that in a temperature field, heat flows in the direction of maximum decrease of
temperature T. Find the direction (more decrease) of heat flow from a point P.
(a) 𝑇 = 8𝑥 2 − 𝑦 2 + 2𝑧 2 ; 𝑃(1, 2, 0) (b) 𝑇 = 20 − 4𝑥 2 − 𝑦 2 ; 𝑃(2, −3).
8. The elevation of a mountain at sea level is given by 𝑍(𝑥, 𝑦) = 3500 − 9𝑥 2 − 𝑦 2 . What is the
direction of (a) the steepest ascent at 𝑃(4, 1)
(b) the steepest descent at 𝑃(6, 2)?

9. Find the directional derivative of the function ‘f’ at P along the direction of the vector 𝑎⃗.
(a) 𝑓 = 𝑥 − 𝑦 at (4, 5) along 𝑎⃗ = 2𝑖̂ + 𝑗̂

(b) 𝑓 = 2𝑥 2 + 3𝑦 2 + 𝑧 2 ; 𝑃(2,1,3) along 𝑖̂ − 2𝑘̂.


10. Find the unit normal vector of the following surfaces or curves at the given point

(a) 𝑧 = 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 at the point (1, 2, 5) (b) 𝑧 = √𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 at (6, 8, 10)

(c) (𝑥 − 1)2 + 𝑦 2 + (𝑧 + 2)2 = 9 at point (3, 1, - 4).

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