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Pearson Higher Nationals in Mechanical Engineering / Electrical & Electronic

Engineering Leading to BEng(Hons)
Unit:
Unit 39: Further Mathematics

Assignment number and title:

Assignment 2 of 2: Number theory, complex numbers, and ordinary differential equations applications in
engineering

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Higher Nationals
Assignment Brief – BTEC (RQF)
Higher National Diploma in Engineering
Student Name/ ID Number
Unit Number and Title Unit 39: Further Mathematics

Academic Year 2023 – 24

Unit Assessor S Kumarawadu

Number theory, complex numbers, and ordinary differential equations
Assignment Title applications in engineering

Issue Date
05/05/2024

Submission Date
08/06/2024

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Date

Submission Format:
You should present.
The assignment working clearly presented with the use of standard technical jargon and fully word-
processed including the text, equations, figures, and tables.

Clearly present the steps of the methods, logic behind the analysis, definitions of the notations used. Use
software where appropriate and show the codes and the results

Unit Learning Outcomes:

LO1 Apply instances of number theory in practical engineering situations

LO4 Review models of engineering systems using ordinary differential equations

Assignment Brief and Guidance:

Scenario

As a practicing electrical, electronic, communication or mechanical engineer in the industry, you may be
expected to use your engineering mathematical background to perform a range of engineering tasks
relating to a range of sub-disciplines in fluid flow, electrical, electronics, mechatronics, and communication
systems. They may include, modelling and solution of a fluid flow system, shock absorber system,
electrical circuits, simple digital electronic circuit such as the tasks given in this assignment.
Activity

Task Part 1
You are required to design a binary clock using a binary counting system to display time by addressing
each segment (hours, minutes, and seconds) with its own byte. Each byte is broken into two parts, the first
half representing the tens place and the second showing the ones place of a particular number. For
example, if the byte representing hours shows 010010 that equates out to 12 hours. You have been asked
to make a binary clock using a matrix of LEDs and a control system that can continue to monitor time while
continuing to update its outputs. By creating a matrix of LEDs, you will be able to control a higher number
of LEDs with the same number of digital output lines. In this two-part module you may build an 8-bit binary
clock that displays individual characters at a time. You may then design and build an LED matrix that will
be driven by NPN transistors. That is capable of displaying multiple characters.
Memory addresses are required to be displayed as two hex numbers. An example is C800:5. The part to
the left of the colon (C800) is called the segment address, and the part to the right of the colon (5) is called
the offset. The offset value can have as many as four hex digits. The actual memory address is calculated
by adding a zero to the right of the segment address and adding the offset value, like this:
C800:5 = C8000 + 5 = C8005.
C8005 is called as the absolute or linear address of the memory. Similarly, F000: FFFD can be computed
to get the memory address.
You are also required to find the memory address in F000: FFFD in Binary and Decimal

Task Part 2

Vibration analysis of an electric motor under certain loading conditions produced a

displacement profile that has two components of the frequency of 0.4 rad/s as follows.
𝑥(𝑡) = sin(0.4𝑡 + 35°) + 4 sin(0.4𝑡 + 40°) cm
You are required to prove that the total displacement is also sinusoidal with the same frequency
and takes the form, 𝑥(𝑡) = 𝑀 sin(0.4𝑡 + 𝜙). In order to further verify your answer, you are also
required to sketch the waveforms of the individual components as well as of the total on the same
graph paper. Label the axes and clearly identify the waveforms.

Displacement profile of a vibrating object has a fundamental component of the frequency of 0.4
rad/s superimposed with a 5th order harmonic component of the frequency of 2.0 rad/s as follows:
𝑥(𝑡) = 2 sin 0.4𝑡 + 1.4 sin 2.0𝑡 cm
where 𝑡 is in seconds. You are faced with a situation where there is no access to advanced
analytical software but only a scientific calculator. Hence use De Moivre’s theorem and the root
finding techniques of polynomial functions to find the time instances where 𝑥(𝑡) = 0.
[You may use De Moivre’s theorem to first show the following and then use this result
sin 5𝜃 = 16 sin5 𝜃 − 20 sin3 𝜃 + 5 sin 𝜃]
Later on, you are also asked to use commercially available software to plot 𝑥(𝑡) versus 𝑡 to
verify the answers of 𝑥(𝑡) = 0 as well as the peak amplitude of 𝑥(𝑡).
Task Part 3

A vertical cylindrical storage tank supplies diesel to a standby power generator at a construction
site. Tank has a cross-sectional area of 10 m2 . Diesel inflow rate to the tank is constant. The
outflow rate is 0.05𝑡 m3 /min where 𝑡 ≥ 0 is time in minutes. Obtain the equation (the mathematical
model) for the diesel level in the tank, ℎ(𝑡), as a function of time.
Initial diesel level in the tank was 4 m. Diesel level drops by 50% in 40 minutes. What should be
the diesel inflow rate? Plot h(t) versus t. Check your result using the plot.

Fig. T3: A vertical cylindrical fuel storage tank [source: www.meridianmfg.com]

Task Part 4
Equation of the vertical displacement of a sprung mass of an electric vehicle is given by
𝑑 2 𝑧(𝑡) 𝑑𝑧(𝑡)
𝑚 2
+𝐵 + 𝑘𝑧(𝑡) = 𝐹(𝑡)
𝑑𝑡 𝑑𝑡
where 𝑚, 𝐵, 𝑘 represent the mass of the sprung-mass, damping constant, and stiffness of the
spring of the shock-absorber system. Sprung-mass Building vertical displacement is 𝑧(𝑡) in cm
under an external force 𝐹(𝑡).

Fig. T4: Vehicle vertical (bounce) motion model

Vertical displacement is to be studied in response to an impulse force of 1.2 kN. Parameters are
𝑚 = 1.2, 𝐵 = 5, 𝑘 = 4.1.
Use Laplace transform technique to obtain the building horizontal displacement 𝑥(𝑡). Plot 𝑥(𝑡)
versus 𝑡.
Now, reduce the damping 𝐵 to 3 and then 1. Plot 𝑥(𝑡) versus 𝑡 profiles on the same graph and
comment on the results.
Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Learning Outcome Pass Merit Distinction

LO1: Apply instances of P1 Apply addition and M1 Deduce solutions D1 Test the correctness
number theory in multiplication methods to of problems using de - of a trigonometric
practical engineering numbers that are Moivre’s Theorem identity using de
situations expressed in different base Moivre’s Theorem
systems
P2 Solve engineering
problems using complex
number theory
P3 Perform arithmetic
operations using the polar
and exponential form of
complex numbers
LO4: Review models of P9 Determine first-order M4 Evaluate how D4 Critically evaluate
engineering systems differential equations and different models of first- and second-order
using ordinary differential their application to engineering systems differential equations
equations engineering systems using using first-order when generating the
analytical methods differential equations solutions to engineering
solve engineering situations using models
P10 Determine second problems of engineering systems
order homogeneous and
non-homogenous
differential equations and
their application to
engineering systems using
analytical methods
P11 Calculate solutions to
linear ordinary differential
equations using Laplace
transforms
Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Learning Outcome Pass Merit Distinction

P1 Apply addition and multiplication

methods to numbers that are
expressed in different base systems
P2 Solve engineering problems using
complex number theory

P3 Perform arithmetic operations

using the polar and exponential form
of complex numbers
P9 Determine first-order differential
equations and their application to
engineering systems using analytical
methods
P10 Determine second order
homogeneous and non-homogenous
differential equations and their
application to engineering systems
using analytical methods

P11 Calculate solutions to linear

ordinary differential equations using
Laplace transforms
M1 Deduce solutions of problems
using de -Moivre’s Theorem
M4 Evaluate how different models of
engineering systems using first-order
differential equations solve
engineering problems
D1 Test the correctness of a
trigonometric identity using de
Moivre’s Theorem
D4 Critically evaluate first- and
second-order differential equations
when generating the solutions to
engineering situations using models
of engineering systems
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