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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2023 Paper 2 19 a Solution by
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Assume and abbreviateThe integral of the nonnegative square expands to for every real . If , completing the square, or choosing , gives . Hence the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality isIf , continuity and nonnegativity imply throughout the interval, so the same inequality is immediate.
When , equality holds exactly when . The integrand is continuous and nonnegative, so it must vanish everywhere, giving . Including the case of a zero function, equality is equivalent to linear dependence of and as elements of the real vector space of continuous functions on the interval.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2023 Paper 2 18 b Solution by
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Evaluate the recurrence boundary terms at zero and . For , both and vanish at both endpoints. Therefore the Wallis integrals obeyThe starting value for both is . Thus
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Write . Apply integration by parts with and :Using on the right gives . Rearranging provesFor , the analogous integration by parts uses and , giving . HenceAn arbitrary constant of integration absorbs the choices in the lower-order antiderivatives.
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The two prescribed directions have dot product zero. Normalize them toTheir cross product is the perpendicular unit vector . Using these as columns givesThe columns form an orthonormal basis, so and is an orthogonal matrix.
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Suppose . The given quadratic form bound then givesso . Thus the kernel of is trivial. A square matrix with trivial kernel is an invertible matrix, proving the assertion. No symmetry assumption on is needed.
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On the normal component is , giving flux ; on it is , giving flux . On the normal component is , giving ; on it is zero. On the normal component is and on it is , so those unit-area faces give and .
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The homogeneous solution is . If , the method of undetermined coefficients permits a particular integral . Substitution gives and henceFor , the forcing is itself a homogeneous solution, so this trial fails by resonance in a differential equation. Multiplying the sine trial by givesThus the resonant general solution isThe secular term containing describes the increasing amplitude under undamped resonant forcing.
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