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UE18MA201: ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS – III

UNIT- 1: Complex Function Theory

1 z
If f (z)  z1 determine whether f( z ) satisfies the C-R equations.

2
Verify the C-R equations for the functions : (a) iz+2 , ( b) z e-z.
3 Show that f ( z ) = z3 + iz is analytic and find its derivative with respect to z.
4 Show that f ( z ) = zn where n is a positive integer is analytic and hence find its derivative with
respect to z.
5 Find the real part of the analytic function whose imaginary part is 𝑒 −𝑥 2𝑥𝑦𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑦 +
𝑦 2 − 𝑥 2 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑦 also construct the analytic function.
6
Show that f ( z ) = 3 z satisfies the C-R equations.
7 Determine the constants a, b, c, d if f ( z ) = ( x 2  2axy  by 2 )  i ( c x 2  2d x y  y 2 ) is
analytic.

8
 k2   k2 
Show that f(z)=  r +  cosθ +i  r   sinθ is regular.
 r   r 
9 Show that u = x2 – y2 and v = y/(x2 + y2) are harmonic functions of x and y but are not
harmonic conjugates.
10
Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves r 2 cos2θ  = c1 , using Cauchy-
Riemann equations.

Show that the function f(z) = e x cosy + 3+ i e x siny  3 is analytic everywhere in the complex
11
plane.
12 If f (z) = u+iv is an analytic function, then show that
2
 2 2    
2

i)  2  2  Re f ( z ) = 2  f '  z 
2 2 

(ii)   f z  +   f z  = f ' z 2

 x y   x   y 
 2   2 
iii)  2 log f z  +  2 log f z  = 0
 x   y 
13
Find the image of the circles z = 1 and z = 2 under the mapping w = z + .
1
z
14
Show that w = e z transforms the region between the real axis & a line parallel to real axis at
y = π into the upper half of the w – plane.
15 Determine the region of the w - plane into which the following regions are mapped by the
transformation w  z 2 . Sketch the region.
(i) region bounded by the first quadrant of z – plane.
(ii) region bounded by x = 1, y = 1, x + y = 1 .

UNIT- 2: Complex Integration

1 2i

 (z ) dz along: (i) the line

2
Evaluate y  x / 2 (ii) the real axis from origin to 2 and then
0

vertically to 2  i .
2
dz
Prove that  z i Or
C
 i according as C is the semicircular arc z  1 above or below the

x-axis.
3
dz
Prove that (i) za2i
C
(ii)   z  a
n
dx  0[n  0] where C is the circle z  a  r .
c

4 Evaluate using Cauchy’s integral formula

e2zdz
(i) (z1)(z2) where C is the circle
z 3
C

cos zdz
(ii) 
C
z2 1 around a rectangle with vertices 2  i ,  2  i .
5 Using Cauchy’s Integral formula , evaluate the following integrals:
 z+4 
i)   2 dz where c: z +1  i = 2.
c  z + 2 z + 5 

 e3z 
ii)   dz whereC is the ellipse z  2 + z + 2 = 6
c
z  π 
6 Use Cauchy’s Integral Formula to evaluate the following:

 z -1 
(i)   ( z  1)
c
2
dz , C : z  i  2
( z  2) 
Answer : -2πi/9

ez
(ii) 
C (z 2   2 )2
dz , C : z  4 Answer : i/π

𝜋
7 Expand 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑧 in a Taylor’s series about 𝑧 = 4 .

8 1
Expand the function 𝑧 2 −4𝑧+3 for 1 < 𝑧 < 3 in Laurent series.

9 Find the poles and the residues there for the following functions:

z 2 1 z z2 4 z2
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
z 2  2z ( z 1) ( z 2  1) z 3  2z 2  2z z4 1

10 Use Cauchy’s Residue Theorem to evaluate the following :

z2  5 1
(i) 
C
( z  2) ( z  3)
dz , C : z  4 (ii) 
C z ( z  1)
3
dz , C : z  2

3z 3  2 3z 3  2
(iii) 
C ( z  1) ( z 2  9)
dz , C : z  4 (iv) 
C ( z  1) ( z 2  9)
dz , C : z  2  2

z2 z2
(v) 
C ( z  1) 2 ( z 2  4)
dz , C : z  3 (vi) 
C ( z  1) 2 ( z 2  4)
dz , C : z  2i  2

cosh z
(vii) 
C z3
dz , where C is the square with vertices at ±1 ± i

sin 6 z
(viii) 
C (z  / 2 )3
dz , C : z  4

UNIT - 3: Fourier Transforms

1 Find the Fourier transform of the slit function f(x) defined as

  1
 x 
f ( x)   
 0 x 
 .

Determine the limit of this transformation as   0 and discuss the result.

2 sin  2
,
Ans..   

2 N  2 4
 x
e
Find the Fourier transform of Gaussian transformation f ( x)  Ne
2

. Ans: 2

3 2  1 
 t  2 
Find the Fourier transform of e Ans.   1    .

4 Find the cosine transform of a function of x, which is unity for 0<x<a and zero for x  a .
2 sin ap
What is the function whose cosine transform is  p .
2
5  r

where a is a constant and r  x  y  z

a2 2 2 2
Find the Fourier transform of e

a3  
 u 2  v2  w2 a
2
4
3
e
2
Ans: 2

6 n
x 1  (1) n ea 
2 

ax
Find the finite sine transform of (a) e (b) sin ax (c) Ans: a 2
n ,


0 an
f ( x)    1

 2
a  n  n cos n 
and n being integers, n

7 x2 
f ( x)   x  , f ( x)  sin ax
Find finite cosine transform of f(x) if 3 2 .

0 if (a  n) is even

1  1 2 2  2a
, n  1, 2,3..  2   a  n  a  n   a 2  n 2 if a  n is odd
Ans: n
2
,   


8 cos  x
 bx  2
 b2
d
Find the Fourier cosine transform of e and evaluate the integrals (1) 0
 
 sin  x  
 2
 b2
d ebx , ebx
(2) 0 Ans: 2b 2

9  
f ( x)  e x
If Fourier sine transform of f(x) is 1   , find f(x).
2
Ans: 2

10 2 n!......cos(n  1)
f ( x) 
 a  x2 
2 n  0.5

If Fourier cosine transform of f(x) is  e , find f(x). Ans:

n  x

11 0 0 xa

f ( x)   x a xb
 0 xb
Find Fourier sine transform of f(x) if 

2  a cos  a  b cos  b sin  b  sin  a 


Ans:    2 

12 Using Fourier Cosine transform of e a x and e b x show that


d 
 a
0
2

  2  b2   2  2ab(a  b)
, a  0, b  0

Unit - 4: Probability & Statistics

1 A random variable x has the following probability function:

x: -2 -1 0 1 2 3
p(x) : 0.1 k 0.2 2k 0.3 k
Find k and also calculate the mean and variance. Ans: 0.1, 0.8, 2.16

2 A continuous distribution of a variable x in the range ( -3, 3 ) is given by

 3
 (3  x ) 2 ,  3  x  1
16

 3
f ( x)   ( 2  6 x 2 ), 1  x  1
 16
 3
 (3  x ) 2 , 1 x  3
 16

Verify that the area under the curve is unity and the mean is zero.
3 Determine the binomial distribution for which mean = 2x variance and
mean + variance = 3. Also find P ( x ≤ 3 ). Ans: n = 4, p = 0.5, q = 0.5, 15/16

4 The probability that Ann hits a target at any time is P = 1/3, suppose fires at the target 7 times,
find the probability that she hits the target a) exactly 3 times b) at least 1 time.
5 If the chance that one of the 10 telephone lines is busy at an instant is 0.2 then
(i) what is the chance that 5 of the lines are busy?
(ii) What is the probability that all lines are busy?
Ans: 10c5 (0.2)5 (0.8)5 , (0.2)10

6 If the probability that a new born child is a male is 0.6, find the probability that in a family of
5 children there are exactly 5 boys. Ans:0.0776

7 Five defective bulbs are accidentally mixed with twenty good ones. It is not possible to just
look at a bulb and tell whether or not it is defective. Find the probability distribution of the
number of defective bulbs, if four bulbs are drawn at random from this lot.
8 Out of 800 families with 5 children each, how many would you expect to have
(i) 3 boys (ii) 5 girls (iii) either 2 or 3 boys. Assume equal probability for boys and girls.
Ans: 250, 25, 500

9 An urn contains 10 white and 3 black balls, while another urn contains 3 white and 5 black
balls. Two balls are drawn from the first urn and put into the second urn and then a ball is
drawn from the latter. What is the probability that it is a white ball?
10 Fit a binomial distribution to the following frequency distribution:
x: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
f: 13 25 52 58 32 16 4
Ans : 6, 28, 57, 60, 37, 12, 2

11 The incidence of occupational disease in an industry is such that the workmen have 10%
chance of suffering from it. What is the probability that in a group of 7, five or more will
suffer from it? Ans:0.007044

12 Fit a Poisson distribution to the following data:

x : 0 1 2 3 4
f: 46 38 22 9 1
Ans: 44, 43, 21, 7, 1

13 The probability of a poisson variate taking the values 3 and 4 are equal. Calculate the
probabilities of the variate taking the values 0 and 1. Ans: 0.0183, 0.07326.
14 In a partially destroyed lab record of analysis of correlation data, the following results are
available. Variance of x is 9. Regression equations are 8x – 10y +66 = 0 and

40x – 18y – 214 = 0. Find x , y ,  y and correlation coefficient.

Ans. x  13, y  17,  y  4

15 Show that if two symmetrical binomial distributions of degree n (the same number of
observations) are so superposed that the rth term of one coincides with the (r+1)th term of the
other, the distribution formed by adding superposed terms is a symmetrical binomial
distribution of degree (n+1).

16 In a certain town the duration of a shower is exponentially distributed with mean 5 minutes.
What is the probability that a shower will last for

i. less than 10 minutes? Ans: 0.8647

ii. 10 minutes or more? Ans:0.1353

17 The life of a T.V tube manufactured by a company is known to have a mean of 200 months.
Assuming that the life has an exponential distribution, find the probability that the life of a
tube is i) less that 200 months (Ans: 1  e1 ) ii)between 100 and 300 months (Ans:
e0.5  e1.5 )
18 Show that the mean deviation from mean of the normal distribution is about 1/5 of its standard
deviation.

19 A distribution consists of three components with frequencies 200, 250, 300 having means of
25, 10 and 15, standard deviation 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Show the mean of composite
distribution is 16 and its standard deviation is nearly 7.2.

20 Define coefficient of correlation. If  is the angle between two regression lines show that
1  r 2  x y
tan   . , and explain the significance when r = 0.
r  x2   y2

21  x2   y2   x2 y
Prove that r 
2 x y
22 Obtain the lines of regression and hence find the coefficient of correlation for the data:

x: 1 3 4 2 5 8 9 10 13 15

y: 8 6 10 8 12 16 16 10 32 32

Ans: x= 0.44y+0.4, y=1.76x+2.68, r =0.88

23 The equation of regression lines of two variables x and y are y = 0.516x + 33.73,
x = 0.512y + 32.52. Find the correlation coefficient and the means of x and y.

Ans: x  68.6460, y  67.6666, r  0.5139

24 Compute the coefficient of correlation and the equation of the lines of regression for the data:

x: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

y: 9 8 10 12 11 13 14

Ans: x=0.93y-6.23, y=0.93x+7.8, r =0.93

25 The Following data relates to the number of hours a group of 8 painters take in order to paint
certain plates. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation and give your conclusion.
(Ans:0.9704, there is high degree positive correlation between the number of hours the
painters paint and the number of plates they paint )

No. Of hours (x) 78 89 99 60 59 79 68 61

No. Of plates (y) 125 137 156 112 107 136 123 108
26 The Following data gives the relationship between years of schooling of formers and annual
yield per acre. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation. (Ans:0.644)

No. of years of
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
schooling of formers
Annual yield per
4 4 6 10 10 8 7
acre in ‘000(Rs)

Questions on Self Learning Component

1 Fit a curve of the form y  a 0  a1 x  a 2 x 2 to the data

x 0 1 2 3 4

y 1 1.8 1.3 2.5 6.3

Ans: a0  1.42, a1  1.07, a2  0.55

2 The population of a certain city at 10 year intervals is given in the following table:

Year (x) 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991

Population 3.9 5.3 7.3 9.6 12.9 17.1 23.2

(in lakhs)(y)

Fit a curve of the form y  ab x to this data and estimate y when x = 2005.

Ans: A=-55.57, B=0.0295, a= 7.35 1025 , b=1.02994, y=35.78

UNIT-5: Partial Differential Equations

I Solve the following PDEs by the method of separation of variables :

u u
u  c e x  y  k ( x  y)
1 2 2
  2( x  y )
 x y

2 u u 1 1
x2  y2 0 k   
x y u  ce 
y x

3 u u x
) 5y
4   3u given u ( 0 , y ) = 2e 5 y (
x y u  2e 2

4 uxy  u u  c e kx  y / k

z  ( A e kx  Be kx ) e ( k  2) y
5 2z z
2

  2z
x 2 y

6 u u u  c e kx y k
y 0
x y

7 u u u  c xk / 2 y k / 3
2x 3y 0
x y

u u
u  c e x  y  k ( x  y)
8 3 3
  3( x 2  y 2 ) u
x y

II Solve the following Linear PDEs:

1 ( xy 3  2 x 4 ) p  ( 2 y 4  x3 y ) q  9 z ( x3  y 3 ) y x
f ( x3 y 3 z ,  ) 0
2
x y2
2 ( x 2  y 2  z 2 ) p  2 xyq  2 xz  y x2  y2  z 2 
f , 0
 z z 
 

3 x 2 p  y 2q  z 2  0 1 1 1 1
f(  ,  ) 0
y x y z

4 x 2 p  y 2q  x  y 1 1
f(  , e  z ( x  y) )  0
y x

5 y 2 p  xyq  x ( z  2 y ) f ( x 2  y 2 , yz  y 2 )  0

6 p  qy log y  z log y yz  f ( e x log y )

7 y2z x 2  z 2  f ( x3  y 3 )
p  xz q  y 2
x

8 ( y 2  z 2 ) p  xy q  xz  0 x2  y 2  z 2  f ( y / z )

9 ( x 2  2 y 2 ) p  xy q  xz f ( yz , x 2 y 2  y 4 )  0

10 ( z 2  y 2  2 yz ) p  ( y  z ) x q  xy  xz x 2  y 2  z 2  f ( y 2  2 yz  z 2 )

III Solve the following PDEs by the method of direct integration :

1  2u x3 x 2 y
 x y u   x f ( y)  g ( y)
 x2 6 2

2  2u x3 y x y3
 x2  y2 u    f ( y ) dy  g ( x)
 x y 6 3

3 2z x x2
 c z log y  a x y   f ( y ) dy  g ( x )
 x y y 2

4  3u 1
 cos( 2 x  3 y ) u sin ( 2 x  3 y )  x f ( y)  g ( y)  h( x)
12
 x 2 y

5  2u u  (1  et ) sin x
 e  t cos x given that u = 0 when t = 0
 x t
u
and  0 at x = 0. Also show that u → sin x as
t
 t →∞.

6  2u x3 y  y
.  xy subject to the condition that u  x  log (1  y)  
 x2 6  2
u
 log (1 y ) when x = 1 and u = 0 when x =
x
0.

7  2u x u u
1 2
x log y  x log x  x 1 log y
 given that  log x when y = 1
 x y y x 2
and u = 0 when x = 1.

IV Solve the following linear PDE:

1 ( Dx  Dx Dy  6Dy ) z  0
2 2 z = f ( y – 2x ) + g ( y + 3x )

2 ( 2Dx  5 Dx Dy  2Dy ) z  0
2 2 z = f ( y – 2x ) + g ( 2y - x )

3 ( Dx  6 Dx Dy  9Dy ) z  0
2 2 z = f ( y – 3x ) + xg ( y - 3x )

4 ( 9Dx  24 Dx Dy  16Dy ) z  0
2 2 z = f ( 3y – 4x ) + xg ( 3y - 4x )

Questions on Self Learning Component :

I Form the PDE by eliminating the arbitrary constant(s):

1. x2 y2 px + qy = 2z
  2z
a2 b2
2. z  a log ( x 2  y 2 )  b py – qx = 0

3. a x 2  by 2  z 2  k z 2 1  z ( px  qy )

4. x2 y2 z2 pz  x ( r z  p 2 )
  1
a2 b2 c2
5 pq = px + qy
z  xy  y x 2  a 2  b

II Form the PDE by eliminating the arbitrary function(s) :

1 1  x 2 p  y q  2y 2
z  y 2  2 f   log y 
 x 

2 z  y f (x )  x g ( y ) s x y  px  qy  z

3 f ( x 2  y 2  z 2 , z 2  2xy )  0 ( p –q ) z = y – x

4 z  e mx f ( x  y ) p – q = mz

5 z  ( x  y ) f ( x2  y 2 ) ( x – y )( py - qx )= z ( x + y )

6 z  f (xz)  g(x y) qr + (1 – p – q) s – (1 – p)t= 0.

7 z  xy  f ( x 2  y 2 ) py – qx = y2 – x2

py – qx = 0
z  f  x 2  y 2 
8
 