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Problems Sets For MFE 1

The document provides 10 problem sets and identities for mathematics engineers to solve. The problem sets involve using laws of sine and cosine to solve for widths of rivers, lengths, areas, sides, and diagonals of geometric shapes using given angle and side measurements. The identities involve proving trigonometric relationships involving sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, and secant functions.

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Problems Sets For MFE 1

The document provides 10 problem sets and identities for mathematics engineers to solve. The problem sets involve using laws of sine and cosine to solve for widths of rivers, lengths, areas, sides, and diagonals of geometric shapes using given angle and side measurements. The identities involve proving trigonometric relationships involving sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, and secant functions.

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Problem Sets

Mathematics for Engineers

I. Laws of Sine and Cosine

1. Along one bank of a river with parallel banks, a surveyor lays off a base line, AB,
600 ft long. From each of the line an object C on the opposite bank is sighted.
The angles which the lines of sight make with the base line are 62 degrees and
5.3 minutes and 81 degrees and 34.7 minutes respectively. Find the width of the
river.
2. The sides of the triangles are 14.832meters, 16.987meters, 18.645meters
respectively. Find the length of the perpendicular from the vertex of the largest
angle to the opposite side.
3. The diagonals of a parallelogram are 56.5 yards and 78.4 yards respectively.
They intersect at an angle of 51degrees 35 minutes. Find the area of
parallelogram.
4. The bases of a trapezoid are 397.62 and 254.15 meters respectively; the angles
that the sides make with the longer base are 68degrees and 39.2minutes and
72degrees and 6minutes. Find the sides and the diagonals.
5. Three circles of a radii 4, 5, and 6 inches respectively are tangent to each other
externally. Find the angles of the triangle formed by joining the centers.
6. Find the radius of the circle circumscribed about the triangle for which A = 50o, B
= 20o and a = 35.

II. Prove the following Identities


𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃+𝑡𝑎𝑛𝜃
1. 1+𝑠𝑒𝑐𝜃
= 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃
1
2. (𝑠𝑒𝑐𝜃+𝑡𝑎𝑛𝜃)
= 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝜃 − 𝑡𝑎𝑛𝜃
3. (1-cos𝜃)(1+cot2𝜃) = 1
tan2 𝜃 cot2 𝜃
4. sec2 𝜃
+ csc2 𝜃
= 1
5. sec𝜃 -sin𝜃 tan𝜃 = cos𝜃
6. sin( x + y ) sin( x – y ) = sin2x -sin2y
7. sin( 45o + x ) cos( 45o + x ) = ½ (cos2x - sin2x )
8. sin3x = 3sinx – 4sin2x
9. cos3x = 4cos3x – 3cosx
10. tanx – tany = sin(x-y) / cosx cosy

Prepared by: Checked by:

JEROME B. PATILLA, REE JEANNELYN P. CALIP, MSME


Instructor Chair- EE Department

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