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Mata Kuliah Aljabar Linier Elementer

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Concept Review

• Network
• Branches
• Nodes
• Flow conservation
• Electrical circuits: battery, resistor, poles (positive and negative), electrical potential, Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's
current law, Kirchhoff's voltage law
• Chemical equations: reactants, products, balanced equation
• Interpolating polynomial
Skills
• Find the flow rates and directions of flow in branches of a network.
• Find the amount of current flowing through parts of an electrical circuit.
• Write a balanced chemical equation for a given chemical reaction.
• Find an interpolating polynomial for a graph passing through a given collection of points.

Exercise Set 1.8


1. The accompanying figure shows a network in which the flow rate and direction of flow in certain branches are known.
Find the flow rates and directions of flow in the remaining branches.

Figure Ex-1

Answer:

2. The accompanying figure shows known flow rates of hydrocarbons into and out of a network of pipes at an oil refinery.
(a) Set up a linear system whose solution provides the unknown flow rates.
(b) Solve the system for the unknown flow rates.
(c) Find the flow rates and directions of flow if and .

Figure Ex-2

3. The accompanying figure shows a network of one-way streets with traffic flowing in the directions indicated. The flow
rates along the streets are measured as the average number of vehicles per hour.
(a) Set up a linear system whose solution provides the unknown flow rates.
(b) Solve the system for the unknown flow rates.
(c) If the flow along the road from A to B must be reduced for construction, what is the minimum flow that is required
to keep traffic flowing on all roads?

Figure Ex-3

Answer:

(a)
(b)
(c) For all rates to be nonnegative, we need cars per hour, so

4. The accompanying figure shows a network of one-way streets with traffic flowing in the directions indicated. The flow
rates along the streets are measured as the average number of vehicles per hour.
(a) Set up a linear system whose solution provides the unknown flow rates.
(b) Solve the system for the unknown flow rates.
(c) Is it possible to close the road from A to B for construction and keep traffic flowing on the other streets? Explain.

Figure Ex-4

In Exercises 5–8, analyze the given electrical circuits by finding the unknown currents.

5.
Answer:

6.

7.

Answer:

8.

In Exercises 9–12, write a balanced equation for the given chemical reaction.

9.

Answer:

, and ; the balanced equation is


10.
11.
Answer:

; the balanced equation is


12.
13. Find the quadratic polynomial whose graph passes through the points (1, 1), (2, 2), and (3, 5).

Answer:

14. Find the quadratic polynomial whose graph passes through the points (0, 0), (−1, 1), and (1, 1).
15. Find the cubic polynomial whose graph passes through the points (−1, −1), (0, 1), (1, 3), (4, −1).

Answer:

16. The accompanying figure shows the graph of a cubic polynomial. Find the polynomial.

Figure Ex-16

17. (a) Find an equation that represents the family of all second-degree polynomials that pass through the points (0, 1) and
(1,2). [Hint: The equation will involve one arbitrary parameter that produces the members of the family when
varied.]
(b) By hand, or with the help of a graphing utility, sketch four curves in the family.

Answer:

(a) Using as a parameter, where .


(b) The graphs for , and 3 are shown.

18. In this section we have selected only a few applications of linear systems. Using the Internet as a search tool, try to find
some more real-world applications of such systems. Select one that is of interest to you, and write a paragraph about it.
True-False Exercises

In parts (a)–(e) determine whether the statement is true or false, and justify your answer.

(a) In any network, the sum of the flows out of a node must equal the sum of the flows into a node.

Answer:

True
(b) When a current passes through a resistor, there is an increase in the electrical potential in a circuit.

Answer:

False
(c) Kirchhoff's current law states that the sum of the currents flowing into a node equals the sum of the currents flowing out
of the node.

Answer:

True
(d) A chemcial equation is called balanced if the total number of atoms on each side of the equation is the same.

Answer:

False
(e) Given any n points in the xy-plane, there is a unique polynomial of degree or less whose graph passes through
those points.

Answer:

False

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