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This document contains a physics exam with two sections. Section A contains 10 short answer questions worth 2 marks each on topics like Taylor series, differential equations, and vector calculus. Section B contains 6 longer answer questions worth 3 marks each, requiring solutions to differential equations, directional derivatives, scalar potentials, and statements of theorems like Stokes' and Green's theorems. The exam is worth a total of 50 marks and takes 2 hours.

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Phy dsc-1

This document contains a physics exam with two sections. Section A contains 10 short answer questions worth 2 marks each on topics like Taylor series, differential equations, and vector calculus. Section B contains 6 longer answer questions worth 3 marks each, requiring solutions to differential equations, directional derivatives, scalar potentials, and statements of theorems like Stokes' and Green's theorems. The exam is worth a total of 50 marks and takes 2 hours.

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+ 3 1st Semester

PHY(H) -I (NC/OC)

2020
Full Marks: 50
Time: 2 hours
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.

Section-A
Answer any Six bits from this question. [6 X 2 = 12]
1. (a) Define Taylor series. Give example.
2
(b) Find the independent solution to the differential equation: ddxy2 - 3 dy + 2y = 0.
dx
(c) Ify 1 = e-xcos x and y2= e-x Sin x, calculate the Wronskian ofthe functions.
(d) Find the volume of the parallelepiped whose three coterminous edges are represented
c
by a= 2f- SJ, b = 3J, and =SJ+ 6k.
(e) Find the work done in moving a particle using the force F = 3x 2 f + (2xz - y)J + zk
along the curve defined by x 2 = 4y and 3x 2 = 8z from x = 0 to x = 3.
(f) Convert the Cartesian coordinates (6, 2, 2 ) to Cylindrical coordinates.
(g) r
Show that the position vector is irrotational.
(h) Enumerate the properties ofthe Dirac delta function.
(i) Check the differential equation for exactness and then solve: (5x4 + 3x2y2 -2xy3 ) dx +
(2x3 y- 3x2y2 -5y4) dy =O.
G) Find the value of the surface integral ff5 (yz dy dz+ 2x dz dx + xy dx dy) where S
is the surface ofthe sphere x2 + y2 + z2 = 1.

Section-B
Answer any Six bits from this question. [6 x 3=18]
2. (a) Find the complete solution ofthe differential equttation: (D2 + 1)2 (D - 1) y = 0.
2
( b) Find the particular integral ofthe differential equation: d y2 +8 dy + 16y = 6e zx.
dx dx
Solve the differential equation: y 3 d
2

(c) Y = a.
dx 2
(d) Find the directional derivative of the scalar function � = x2 - 2y2 + 4z2, at (1, 1, -1) in
the direction 2f + J - k.
(e) Find the scalar potential ifthe given vector function is irrotational:
A= (x + 2y + az)f + (bx - 3y - z)J + (4x + cy + 2z)k.
(f) State Stoke's theorem and Green's theorem.
(g) Write the two dimensional Laplace's equation in cylindrical coordinates (r,8).

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