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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 12 b Solution by
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Use the exponential definition of the hyperbolic tangent:The complex exponential has modulus one here, so . Its arguments satisfy . Thus all solutions areThe denominator is then , so no pole was admitted by cross-multiplication. Substitution also follows from and the period .
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The complex number has complex modulus and argument . A cube root has modulus , and its argument is one third of . Hence the three distinct roots areTheir displayed arguments are , , and ; the last is equivalently in the principal range.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 11 d Solution by
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Resolve the input along the three perpendicular eigendirections. The linear map removes the component along , stretches the component along by , and reverses and stretches the component along by . Every output lies in the plane perpendicular to . A nonzero input in the kernel of a linear map is sent to zero; other nonzero inputs remain in that output plane. Equivalently, take the orthogonal projection onto this plane, then scale by the two signed eigenvalues along its perpendicular eigendirections.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 11 c Solution by
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Expand an arbitrary vector in the orthonormal eigenbasis:Its image has no component along , soAlternatively, symmetry gives . This is image-kernel orthogonality for an adjoint, with .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 11 b Solution by
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The symmetry between the first and third coordinates makes an eigenvector, with eigenvalue . In the remaining invariant plane, write a vector as . Its image is , so the reduced eigenvalue equation has determinantThe corresponding directions have for and for . Normalizing givesTheir squared unnormalized norms are . The pairwise unnormalized dot products are , , and , so these unit eigenvectors are mutually orthogonal. The eigenvalues sum to and have product zero, agreeing with part (a).
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Expanding the determinant along the first row givesThe matrix trace is the sum of the diagonal entries, . Since the determinant is the product of the eigenvalues, at least one eigenvalue is zero. Thus is singular; the determinant alone does not specify the two other eigenvalues.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 10 b Solution by
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For the partial fraction decomposition, write . Clearing denominators gives . Substitution at and yields and , hence
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 10 a Solution by
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The original line meets the horizontal axis at . A perpendicular line has slope , the negative reciprocal of , soSubstituting verifies the required common point.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 1 b Solution by
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The outer exponential function differentiates to itself, and the inner sine has derivative cosine. The chain rule gives
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 1 a Solution by
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Write the rational expression as and apply the chain rule:The denominator is positive for every real , so the derivative is defined throughout the real line.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 9 b Solution by
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The product rule for divergence, , and the result in (a) give, for ,This is a pointwise identity away from the origin, where the radial unit vector is undefined.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 9 a Solution by
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For , use the gradient of a radial function with :Equivalently each component is by differentiating . The origin is excluded from the function's domain.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 8 b Solution by
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For the divergence in Cartesian coordinates, differentiate each component with respect to its own coordinate:The third component contributes zero because it is independent of .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 8 a Solution by
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First take , then differentiate with respect to . The product rule and chain rule giveThe function is smooth, so the two mixed partial derivatives agree.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 7 b Solution by
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 7 a Solution by
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Use the convention that is the polar angle from positive , and the azimuth from positive . The radius isThen , while and both planar coordinates are positive. Thus the spherical coordinates are
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 20 c Solution by
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Use differentiation under the integral sign, justified by the integrable bound . This givesIntegration by parts makes the boundary term vanish: sine vanishes at zero and the Gaussian tends to zero at infinity. ThereforeThe integrating factor makes , so . At , the given half-line Gaussian integral fixes . ThusThis is the even cosine-transform form of the Fourier transform of a Gaussian.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 20 b Solution by
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For , integrate the base power to obtain . Since , differentiating times givesHere is a nonnegative integer. For justification, keep in a small closed interval bounded below by . The differentiated integrands are dominated by , whose integral becomes under and is finite. The dominated convergence theorem establishes the needed differentiation under the integral sign and the logarithmic moments of a power on the unit interval.
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Under the regularity and integrability conditions for the Leibniz integral rule,The first two terms account for the moving endpoints; the last accounts for the integrand's own parameter dependence.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 2 2 b Solution by
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For a real number , the hyperbolic functions satisfy and . Hence , and multiplying it by givesThe sign of the numerator preserves the sign of .
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