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Applications of Vector Analysis & PDEs
Applications of Vector Analysis & PDEs
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2014-ME-01
To
2014-ME-20
TOPIC
Practical application of
the
vector analysis
Aircraft Vectoring
Aircraft vectoringis anavigationservice
provided to aircraft byair traffic control.
Cannon
Acannonis any piece ofartillerythat
usesgunpowderor other usually
explosive-based propellants to launch a
projectile.
Cannon vary in range, mobility, rate of
fire; different forms of cannon combine
and balance these attributes in varying
degrees, depending on their intended
use on the battlefield.
Of course for this we need vectors. It is
used also in aircraft.
Wind Vectors
Sports (Baseball)
Another example of a vector in real life
would be an outfielder in a baseball
game moving a certain direction for a
specific distance to reach a high fly ball
before it touches the ground. The
outfielder can't just run directly for
where he sees the ball first or he is going
to miss it by a long shot. The player
must anticipate what direction and how
far the ball will be from him when it
drops and move to that location to have
the best chance of catching the ball.
Roller Coaster
Aroller coasteris anamusement ridedeveloped
foramusement parksand moderntheme parks. Most of
the motion in a roller-coaster ride is a response to the
Earth's gravitational pull.
No engines are mounted on the cars. After the train
reaches the top of the first slope the highest point on the
ride the train rolls downhill and gains speed under the
Earth's gravitational pull. The speed is sufficient for it to
climb over the next hill. This process occurs over and over
again until all the train's energy has been lost to friction
and the train of cars slows to a stop. If no energy were
lost to friction, the train would be able to keep running as
long as no point on the track was higher than the first
peak.
Here vectors of forces, acceleration, and velocity are
important to make a safety system, if designer consider
them accurately then system will be safety.
Air Plane
If a plane is trying to fly to an airstrip 40 miles north of its
current location, and it is travelling at 100 mph, a person
might assume the plane would arrive in 30 minutes if the
pilot pointed the plane due north. But if the plane had a
prevailing wind from the west blowing at 9 miles per hour,
it would end up 5 miles to the east of the airport, as the
wind has blown the airplane off course.
Think of the plane's speed and direction as vector A, and
the wind's speed and direction as vector B. Add them head
to foot, then draw a line from the plane's starting point to
the end of vector B. This is the actual location of the plane.
Winds blowing at the plane from the front are called
headwinds, while winds from the back of the plane are
called tailwinds. All winds from any direction are calculated
as vectors, and these vectors affect aircraft courses and
require consistent course correction.
TOPIC
Practical application
of the partial
differential eq.
Other Applications
PDEs are used to find out how much
a beam is going to bend.
PDEs are used to find the stress
distribution within an object when
subjected to some load.
PDEs are required to find out the
mechanical stresses in a bridge.
practical applications
For practical applications, partial differential equations
get translated into specific differential equations.
More generally, computer software based on
ordinary differential equations is used, rather
than solving the equations by hand every time.
Heat equation in one space dimension
Wave equation in one spatial dimension
Generalized heat-like equation in one space
dimension
Spherical waves
Laplace equation in two dimension.
Marginal Cost
The cost added by producing one extra item of
a product is called marginal cost.
Many economists use the differential equations to
calculate the marginal cost.
Suppose it is stated that the marginal cost to
manufacture x widgets9 is given by the function M C
D 10x C 5000. We can express this statement more
concisely with the differential equation dC dx D 10x C
5000
where C.x/ denotes the total cost to produce x widgets