POKHARA UNIVERSITY

Level: Bachelor Semester – Spring Year : 2006

Programme: BE Full Marks: 100
Course: Engineering Mathematics II Time : 3hrs.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Attempt all the questions.

1. a) Obtain the equation of the plane which passes through the point 7
(-1, 3, 2) and is perpendicular to each of two planes. x + 2y + 2z = 5
and 3x + 3y + 2z = 8.
OR
Find the length and equation of the shortest distance between the lines
x 3 y 8 z 3
  ; 2x – 3y + 27 = 0, 2y – z +20 = 0
3 1 1
b) Find the equation of tangent planes to the sphere x2 8
+ y2 + z2 – 4x + 2y – 6z + 5 = 0 which are parallel to the plane 2x
+y–z=0
2. a) What are the criteria of a function of two independent variables to 8
have extreme values? Find the extreme value of x 2 + y2 +
2
z when 1/x + 1/y +1/z = 1.
b) Define partial derivative of a function at a point. If 7
u  log x 2  y 2  z 2 , show that:

  2u  2u  2u 
( x 2  y 2  z 2 )  2    1
 x y 2 z 2 
3. a) Sketch the region of integration and evaluate by interchanging the 7
1 2  x2
x
order of integration  
0 x x  y2
2
dy dx.

b) Find the volume of the solid whose base is the region in xy-plane that
8
is bounded by the parabola y = 4 – x 2 and the line y = 3x, while the
top of the solid is bounded by the plane z – x = 4.

4. a) Define the first order linear differential equations with suitable 7

 dy
example and solve: x  y  y 2 log x .
dx
b) Solve y //  4 y /  4 y  x 2  e 2 x 8
OR
Solve by the method of variation of parameters y // + y = secx
5. a) Solve by power series method y // + y = 0. 8
OR
Define Bessel equation and its solution. Show that
J  n ( x )  ( 1) n J n ( x ).
b) Solve the initial value problem. 7
y //  y /  2 y   6 sin 2 x 18 cos 2 x, y (0)  2, y / (0)  2
6. a) Find the Laplace transform of t2 sin2t 4
 s a
b) Find the inverse Laplace transform of log  
 4
 s b 
d
c) If L [ f (t )] F ( s ), then show that L[tf (t )]   [ F ( s )].
ds 7
Using it evaluate L[t2 cos 3t].
OR
Solve the initial value problem
y //  4 y /  3 y  e  t , y (0)  1, y / (0)  1, by using Laplace
transform.
7. Attempt the following: 2×5
a) Find the angle between the planes 2x + 3y – z = 12 and
x +2y – z = 14.
dy
b) Find integrating factor of  y tan x  sec x
dx
c) Write down the condition that the cone ax 2
2 2
+ by + cz + 2fyz + 2gzx + 2hxy = 0 may have set of three
mutually perpendicular generators.
d) Find the Laplace transform of t sinat.
v v v
e) If v = x3 + y3 + z3 than verify that x y z  3v
x y z