Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2019 / ia / Paper 2 / 7C / d

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Solution

The cups have equal temperatures up to the intervention at

t = 1

. For the later recrossing, subtract the formula for

T_{2}

from that for

T_{1}

and set the result to zero:

- e^{- a (t - 1)} + \frac{1}{a} (1 - e^{- a (t - 2)}) = 0.

z = e^{- a (t - 2)}

gives

z = (1 + a e^{- a})^{- 1}

. Hence the nontrivial meeting time is

t^{*} = 2 + \frac{1}{a} lo g (1 + a e^{- a}) .

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