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Module – I

Fourier Series:

1. Obtain the Fourier expansion of f(x) =

1
  x  in -< x <
2
2. Obtain the Fourier expansion of f(x)=e-ax in the interval (-, ).
3. Obtain the Fourier expansion of f(x) = x2 over the interval (-, ). Deduce that
2 1 1
 1 2
 2  ......  
6 2 3
4. Obtain the Fourier expansion of the following:

  x 
2

a) f(x) =   over (0, 2 )

 2 
2 1 1
b) f(x) = x over (-,  ) , hence deduce that    .......
8 12 32
  x,  x  0 2 1 1
c) f(x) =  over (-,  ) , hence deduce that    .......
  x,0  x   8 12 32

d) Triangular waveform f(x) = 1  (2 x /  ),    x  0 over (-, ) , hence deduce that

1  (2 x /  ), 0  x  
2 1 1
   .......
8 12 32

e) Square waveform f(x) =  k ,  x  0

k ,0  x  

 1,  x  0
  1 1
f) f(x) = 0, x  0 over (-,  ) , hence deduce that  1    .......
1,0  x   4 3 5

  ,  x  0 2 1 1
5. Obtain the Fourier expansion of f(x) =  , hence deduce that  1  2  2  ......
 x,0  x   8 3 5

 x,0  x   2 1 1
6. Obtain the Fourier expansion of f ( x)   , hence deduce that  1  2  2  ......
2  x,  x  2 8 3 5

1 3
7. Obtain the Fourier expansion of f(x) = x sinx over 0  x  2 , hence deduce that n
n2
2
 .
1 4
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 4x 3
1  3 in  2  x  0
 2 1 1
8. Obtain the Fourier expansion of f(x) =  4 x 3 , hence deduce that  1  2  2  ......
1  in0  x  8 3 5
 3 2

9. Obtain the Fourier series of the following functions over the specified intervals :
a) f(x) = x(2-x) over (0,2) b) f(x) = x2 over (-1,1)

x,0  x  1
c) f(x) =  d) f(x) = x sinx in (-,  ).
 (2  x),1  x  2
10. Expand f(x) = x(-x) as half-range sine series over the interval (0,).

 
 x,0  x  2
11. Obtain the cosine series of f ( x)   over(0,  ) .

  x,  x  
 2
12. Obtain the half-range cosine and sine series of the following functions over the specified intervals :
a) f(x) = sinx over (0,) b) f(x) = x sinx over (0,) c) f(x) = lx-x2 over (0 , l)

 l 1 1
kx,0  x  2  4  x, 0  x  2
e) f(x) = 
.
d)f(x) =  3 1
x  ,  x 1
k (l  x), l  x  l  4 2
 2
13. Find the constant term and the first two harmonics of the Fourier series of f(x) given the following table

x 0  2  4 5 2
3 3 3 3
f(x) 1.0 1.4 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.2 1.0

14. Express y as a Fourier series upto the second harmonic given the following values
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
y 4 8 15 7 6 2 4

15. The following table gives the variations of a periodic current A over a period T :
t(secs) 0 T/6 T/3 T/2 2T/3 5T/6 T
A (amp) 1.98 1.30 1.05 1.30 -0.88 -0.25 1.98
Show that there is a constant part of 0.75amp. in the current A and obtain the amplitude of the first
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harmonic.

16. The displacement y of a part of a mechanism is tabulated with corresponding angular movement x 0 of the
crank. Express y as a Fourier series upto the second harmonic.

x0 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330

y 1.80 1.10 0.30 0.16 1.50 1.30 2.16 1.25 1.30 1.52 1.76 2.00

17. Obtain the Fourier series of y upto the second harmonic using the following table :

x0 45 90 135 180 225 270 315 360

y 4.0 3.8 2.4 2.0 -1.5 0 2.8 3.4

18. Obtain the constant term and the coefficients of the first sine and cosine terms in the Fourier expansion of
y as given in the following table :

x 0 1 2 3 4 5
y 9 18 24 28 26 20

Module – II

Fourier Transforms:

1. Find the Complex Fourier Transforms of the following function

1, x a
f(x)   where ‘a’ is a positive constant. Hence evaluate
0, x a

2. Find the Fourier Transform of the function f(x)  e where a  0 .

-a x

3. Find the Fourier Transform of the following functions:

 x, x a
a) f x    where ' a' is a positive constant .
0, x a

1  x , x 1 
sin 2 x 
b) f x    . Hence deduce that  2 dx  .
 0, x 1 0
x 2
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a 2  x 2 , x a
c) f x    , where a is a positive constant.
 0, x a

1  x 2 , x 1 (sin x  x cos x)
d) f x   


x 1
. Hence evaluate  x3
cos( x / 2) dx .
 0,
0

a x
e) f ( x)  xe , where ' a' is a positive constant.

x  cos mx  em
f) f ( x)  e . Hence show that 
0 x2  1
dx 
2
, m  0.

2 2
4. Find the Fourier Transform of f(x)  e- a x where ' a' is a positive constant.
2
x
Deduce that f(x)  e 2 is self reciprocal with respect to Fourier Transform.

5. Find the Fourier cosine transform of the following functions :

 4 x, 0  x  1

( a ) f  x   4  x , 1  x  4
 0, x4


(b) f x   e  ax , a  0
2

1
(c ) f ( x ) 
1 x2
e  ax
(d ) f ( x)  , a  0, x  0
x
6. Find the Fourier sine transform of e  ax and xe  ax , where a  0. Deduce that
 x sin mx x
 0 x a
2 2
dx, m  0 and hence obtain the Fourier sine transform of 2
x  a2
.

e -ax
7. Find the Fourier sine transform of f(x)  , a  0, x  0. Hence show that
x
  x 

0
tan 1   sin x dx  e a .
a 2
 x sin mx  em
8. Find the Fourier sine transform of e |x| and hence show that  dx  , m  0.
0 x2  1 2

Z-TRANSFORMS

1. Find the z-transforms of (i) coshn(ii) sinhn(iii) cosn(iv) sinn (v) n2.
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2. Find the z-transforms of the following :

(i) n2an (ii) (n-1)3 (iii) ancosn (iv) ansinhn (v) sin(3n+5)

1
(vi) eansinn (vii) (viii) cos(2n+3) (ix) sin(n+2)  (x) cos(n+1) 
(n  2)!

an a nea (ae  a ) n
(xi) (xii) (xiii) (xiv) (n+1)2.
(n  1)! n! n!

3. Find the inverse Z-transform of the following :

(a) (2z2 + 3z)/[(z + 2)(z – 4)] (b) (z3 – 20z)/[(z – 2)3(z – 4)]

(c) 3z/[(z - 1)(z – 2)] (d) 2z/[(z - 1)(z2 +1)]

(e) 1/[(z – 2)(z – 3) for |z| > 3 (f) (3z2 + z)/[(5z - 1)(5z + 2)]

4. Using the Z-transform, solve the following difference equations :

a) yn+2 – 5yn+1 - 6yn = 4n. b) un+2 – 2un+1 + un = 3n+5.

c) yn+2 – 6yn+1 + 8yn = 2n d) yn+2 + 2yn+1 + yn = n, y0 = y1 = 0.

e) yn+2 + 4yn+1 + 3yn = 3n, y0 = y1 = 0. f) yn+2 + 6yn+1 + 9yn = 2n, y0 = y1 = 0.

g) yn+2 – 5yn+1 + 6yn = un, y0 = 0, y1 = 1, un = 1, n = 0,1,2,…. .

Module – III
PROBABILITY distributions

1. A random variable X has the following distribution :

X -2 -1 0 1 2 3
P(X) 0.1 k 0.2 2k 0.3 k
Find (i) k (ii) Evaluate P(X < 1) (iii) P(-1 < X  2) (iv) Mean (v) Variance.
2. A random variable X has the following distribution :
X 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
P(X) 0 k 2k 3k 2k k2 2k2 7k2 + k
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Find (i) k (ii) Evaluate P(X < 4) (iii) P(3 < X  6) (iv) P(X  5) (v) mean(vi) standard
deviation.
3. A random variable X take the values -3, -2,-1,0,1,2,3 such that P(x=0) = P(x<0) and P(x= -3) =P(x= -
2)=P(x= -1)=P(x= 1)=P(x= 2)=P(x= 3). Find the probability distribution.
4. In sampling a large number of parts manufactured by a machine, the mean number of defectives in a
sample of 20 is 2. Out of 100 such samples, how many would be expected to contain at least 3 defective
parts.
5. A coin is tossed 6 times. Find the probability of getting (i) exactly 1 head(ii) at most 3 heads (iii) at least
2 heads (iv) heads only.
6. The probability that a man aged 60 will live to 70 is 0.65. Out of 10 men, now at the age of 60, find the
probability that (i) at least 7 will live up to 70 (ii) exactly 9 will live up to 70 (iii) at most 9 will live up
to 70.
7. A class of 100 students contain 10 bright students. Five students from the class are picked at random.
Find the probability that (i) none of the picked student is a bright student (ii) all the picked are bright
students.
8. A car hire firm has 2 cars, which it hires out day by day. The demand for a car on each day is distributed
as a Poisson distribution with mean 1.5. Calculate the probability that on a certain day (i) neither car is
used and (ii) some demand is refused.
9. Given that 2% of the fuses manufactured by a firm are defective, find by using Poisson distribution, the
probability that a box containing 200 fuses has (i) at least one defective fuse (ii) 3 or more defective
fuses.
10. Theprobability that an individual suffers a bad reaction from a certain injection is 0.002. Using Poisson
distribution, determine the probability that out of 1000 individuals (a) exactly 3 & (b) more than 2 will
suffer a bad reaction.
11. In a certain factory turning out razor blades, there is a small chance of 0.002 for any blade to be
defective. The blades are supplied in packets of 10. Using Poisson distribution, find the approximate
number of packets containing (i) no defective blade (ii) one defective blade and (iii) two defective
blades, in a consignment of 10,000 packets.
12. The probability density function of a continuous random variable is p(x) = kx2 , -3 ≤ x≤ 3, 0,
elsewhere.Find k, mean, variance, P(x<1) and P(1<x<3).
13. The probability density function of a continuous random variable is p(x) = kx(1-x)ex , 0 ≤ x≤1, 0,
elsewhere. Find k, mean, variance and standard deviation.
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14. The probability density function of a continuous random variable isp(x) = k(1-x2), 0 ≤ x≤1, 0, else
where.Find k, P(0.1≤ x≤0.2), P(x≤0.3) & P(x>0.5).
15. If the life of an electric bulb is an exponential variate with mean life of 1000 hours, find the probability
that a bulb will last for more than 1500 hours. If two bulbs are selected at random find the probability
that (i) both (ii) at least one will last for more than 1500 hours.
16. The life length of an electronic device is exponentially distributed with mean 3 years. What is the
probability that the device will function properly after 2 years of its installation?
17. 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 (ii) 10 minutes or more?
18. The duration of a telephone conversation has been found to have an exponential distribution with mean 3
minutes. Find the probability that the conversation will last for(i) more than 1 minute (ii) less than 3
minutes.
19. 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 manufactured by a
company is (i) less than 200 months (ii) between 100 and 300 months.
20. In a normal distribution, 31% of the items are under 45 and 8% over 64. Find the mean and standard
deviation, given P(0  z < 0.5) = 0.19 and P(0  z < 1.4) = 0.42.
21. In an examination taken by 500 students, the average and standard deviation of marks obtained are 40%
and 10% respectively. Assuming normal distribution, find (i) how many have scored above 60% (ii) how
many will pass if 50% is fixed as the minimum for passing. [A(1) = 0.3413 and A(2) =0.4772]
22. A coffee vending machine is used to fill 80 mls of coffee to each cup. It is found that 2% of the cups
filled by the machine contain less than 80 mls with a standard deviation of 0.2 ml. Assuming that the
amount of coffee in the cups has a normal distribution, find the average amount of coffee in the cups. [
A(2.05) = 0.48 ].
23. Steel rods are manufactured to be 3 cms in diameter but they are acceptable if they are inside the limits
2.99cms and 3.01 cms. It is observed that 5% are rejected as oversized and 5% are rejected as
undersized. Assuming that diameters are normally distributed, find the mean and the standard deviation
of the distribution. [A(1.65) = 0.45].
24. In a test on 2000 electric bulbs, it was found that the life of a particular make was normally distributed
with an average life of 2040 hours and S.D of 60 hours. Estimate the number of bulbs likely to burn for
i) More than 2150 hours
ii) Less than 1950 hours
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iii) More than 1920 hours and Less than 2160 hours.
[A(1.833)= 0.4664, A(1.5) =0.4332, A(2) = 0.4772].

Module – IV
Ordinary Differential Equations of Higher Order

1. Solve the following differential equations:

a) . b) .

c) . d) .

e) . f) .

g) ( ) . h) ( )

i) ( ) . j) ( ) .

k) ( ) l) ( )

m) ( D3  D) y  2e x  4 cos x.

2. Solve the following differential equations:

i) . ii) .

iii) ( ) iv) ( )

v) ( ). vi) x2 y  xy  y  2 cos2 (log x).

vii) ( ) ( ) * ( )+ viii) ( ) ( )

x) ( ) ( ) ( ) xi) ( ) ( )

3. In an L – C – R circuit, the charge q on a plate of a condenser is given by

. The circuit is tuned to resonance so that . If initially the current i and the charge q be
zero, show that for small values of , the current in the circuit at time t is given by
4. An uncharged condensor of capacity is charged by applying an e.m.f. E sin(t/(LC)) through leads of
self-inductance L and negligible resistance. Prove that at any time t, the
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{ }
√ √ √

Module – V

curve fitting

1. Using the method of least squares, fit a linear relation of the form P=a+bW to the following data, where
P is the pull required to lift a weight W :

W(kg) 50 70 100 120

P (kg-wt) 12 15 21 25

Estimate P when W is 150 kg.

2. Fit a power function (geometric curve) of the form y = axb to the following data and estimate y at x = 12

Price (x) 20 16 10 11 14

Demand (y) 22 41 120 89 56

3. Fit an exponential curve of the form y = aebx for the following data :

x 1 2 3 4

y 7 11 17 27

4. Fit a parabola of the form y = a + bx + cx2 for the following data by the method of leastsquares :

x 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0

y 1.1 1.3 1.6 2.0 2.7 3.4 4.1

5. Fit a second degree polynomial in the least square sense that fits to the following data

x 0 1 2 3 4

y 1 1.8 1.3 2.5 6.3

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6. Fit a parabola of the form y = a + bx + cx2 for the following data by the method of least squares :

x 0 1 2 3 4 5

y 1 3 7 13 21 31

Statistical methods

1. Obtain the lines of regression and hence find the coefficient of correlation for the data

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

y 9 8 10 12 11 13 14

2. Find the correlation coefficient and the equation of the lines of regression for the following values of x
and y

x 1 2 3 4 5

y 2 5 3 8 7

3. Find the correlation coefficient between x and y for the following data. Also obtain the regression lines.

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

y 10 12 16 28 25 36 41 49 40 50

4. Compute x , y and r from the following equation of the regression lines. 2x + 3y +1 = 0, x + 6y – 4 = 0.

 x  y 1 r 2 
5. Show that if Ɵ is the angle between the lines of regression, then tan   2  
 x   y2  r 
6. Ten students got the following percentage of marks in two subjects x and y. Compute their rank
correlation coefficient.

Marks in x 78 36 98 25 75 82 90 62 65 39

Marks in y 84 51 91 60 68 62 86 58 53 47