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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2014 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability 5 c Solution by
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The constraint implies , so and its gradient never vanishes on the feasible set. The Lagrange multiplier equations giveThus , , , and feasibility gives . The two stationary points and their values areThey are both global minima. Indeed, on the constraint, completing the square givesEquality holds only at the two displayed points. There are no other constrained stationary points, and the objective is unbounded above as .
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The arithmetic-geometric mean inequality for the positive numbers and givesEquality holds precisely when , hence at . Thus , attained only at . Equivalently, the exact identity proves the same global bound.
Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2014 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability 4 d Solution by
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Write , so . The chain rule givesSubstitution into the Cauchy-Euler equation therefore gives . Its characteristic equation factors as , so . Returning to gives
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The homogeneous characteristic equation is , giving and . Since the forcing already appears among these solutions, try a particular solution . Differentiation and substitution giveso . The general solution is
Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2014 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability 4 b Solution by
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After division by , the equation is linear with coefficient on . Its integrating factor is , and the product rule givesUsing the antiderivative from the preceding part,The arbitrary constant multiplies the homogeneous solution .
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Let . Two applications of integration by parts givewhere additive constants can be absorbed at the end. Solving for yieldsDifferentiating the answer gives .
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Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
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