Recent questions in Engineering Mathematics

The Newton-Raphson method is applied to determine the solution of $f(x) = 0$ where $f(x) = x – \cos (x).$ If the initial guess of the solution is $x_{0} = 0,$ the value o...

Consider the differential equation$\dfrac{dy}{dx} + y \ln (y) = 0$If $y(0) = e,$ then $y(1)$ is ___________$e^{e}$$e^{-e}$$e^{(1/e)}$$e^{(-1/e)}$

The matrix $\text{A} = \begin{bmatrix} 4 & 3 \\ 9 & -2 \end{bmatrix}$ has eigenvalues $-5$ and $7.$The eigenvectors(s) is/are __________ $\begin{bmatrix} 1\\ 1 \end{bmat...

For the complex number $z= \frac{a+jb}{a-jb},$ where $a>0$ and $b>0.$Which of the following statement(s) is/are true?The phase is $2 \; \tan^{-1}\frac{b}{a}$The phase is ...

Consider the function $f(z) = \dfrac{1}{(z+1)(z+2)(z+3)}.$ The residue of $f(z)$ at $z = -1,$ is ___________

Consider the row vectors $v=(1,0)$ and $w=(2,0)$. The rank of the matrix $M=2v^{T}v+3w^{T}w$, where the superscript $\text{T}$ denotes the transpose, is$1$$2$$3$$4$

Consider the sequence $x_{n}=0.5x_{n-1}+1,n=1,2, \dots \:\dots$ with $x_0=0$ . Then $\displaystyle \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} x_n$ is$0$$1$$2$$\infty$

Let $u\left ( t \right )$ denote the unit step function. The bilateral Laplace transform of the function $f\left ( t \right )=e^{t}u\left ( -t \right )$ is ______________...

Let $f\left ( z \right )=\dfrac{1}{z^{2}+6z+9}$ defined in the complex plane. The integral $\oint _{c}\:f\left ( z \right )dz$ over the contour of a circle $\text{c}$ wit...

The determinant of the matrix $\text{M}$ shown below is _______________. $$M=\begin{bmatrix} 1 & 2 & 0 & 0\\ 3 & 4 & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 4 & 3\\ 0 & 0 & 2 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$$

$f\left ( Z \right )=\left ( Z-1 \right )^{-1}-1+\left ( Z-1 \right )-\left ( Z-1 \right )^{2}+ \cdots$ is the series expansion of$\frac{-1}{Z\left ( Z-1 \right )}$ for $...

Consider that $\text{X}$ and $\text{Y}$ are independent continuous valued random variables with uniform $\text{PDF}$ given by $X\sim U\left ( 2,3 \right )$ and $Y\sim U\l...

Given $A=\begin{pmatrix} 2 & 5\\ 0 & 3 \end{pmatrix}$. The value of the determinant $\left | A^{4}-5A^{3}+6A^{2}+2I \right |=$ _______________.

Consider the matrix $M=\begin {bmatrix} 1&-1&0\\1&-2&1\\0&-1&1\end{bmatrix}$. One of the eigenvectors of $M$ is$\begin {bmatrix} 1\\-1\\1\end{bmatrix}$$\begin {bmatrix} 1...

Consider the differential equation $\frac{dx}{dt}=\sin(x),$ with the initial condition $x(0)=0. $The solution to this ordinary differential equation is __________$x(t)=0$...

A straight line drawn on an x-y plane intercepts the x-axis at -0.5 and the y-axis at 1.The equation that describes this line is __________.$\text{y=-0.5x+1}$$\text{y=x-0...

Consider the function $f(x,y)=x^2+y^2.$ The minimum value the function attains on the line $x+y=1$ (rounded off to one decimal place) is __________.

Consider two identical bags $B1$ and $B2$ each containing $10$ balls of identical shapes and sizes. Bag $B1$ contains $7$ Red and $3$ Green balls, while bag $B2$ contains...

The unit vectors along the mutually perpendicular x,y and z axes are $\hat{i},\;\hat{j}\; and \;\hat{k}$ respectively. Consider the plane $z=0$ and two vectors $\overrigh...

Consider the recursive equation $X_{n+1}=X_n – h(F(X_n)-X_n),$ with initial condition $X_0=1$ and h>0 being a very small valued scalar. This recursion numerically solves ...

A set of linear equations is given in the form $Ax=b$, where A is a $2\times 4$ matrix with real number entries and $b\neq 0.$ will it be possible to solve for $x$ and ob...

Let $f(z)=\frac{1}{z+a},a>0.$ the value of the integral $\oint f(z)dz$ over a circle $C$ with center $(-a,0)$ and radius $R>0$ evaluated in the anti-clockwise direction i...

A player throws a ball at a basket kept at a distance. The probability that the ball falls into the basket in a single attempt is 0.1. The player attempts to throw the ba...

Consider the signal $x(t)=e^{-|t|}$. Let $X(j\omega)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} x(t)e^{-j\omega t} dt$ be the Fourier transform of $x(t)$. The value of $X(j0) $is _________

The Laplace transform of a casual signal $y(t)$ is $Y(s)$ = $\frac{s+2}{s+6}$. The value of the signal $y(t)$ at $t $ = $0.1\:s$ is_____________ unit.

The probability that a communication system will have high fidelity is $0.81$. The probability that the system will have both high fidelity and high selectivity is $0.18$...

The angle between two vectors $X_1=\begin{bmatrix}2 & 6 & 14\end{bmatrix}^T$ and $X_2=\begin{bmatrix}-12 & 8 & 16\end{bmatrix}^T$ in radian is __________.

The following table lists an $n^{th}$ order polynominal $f(x)=a_nx^n+a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+...+a_1x+a_0$ and the forward differences evaluated at equally spaced values of $x$. T...

If $\text{v}$ is a non-zero vector of dimensions $3\times1$, then the matrix $A=VV^T$ has a rank = ____________.

The figure shows a shape $\text ABC$ and its mirror image $\text A_1B_1C_1$ across the horizontal axis $\text (X-axis)$. The coordinate transformation matrix that maps $\...

Let $z=x+jy$ where $j=\sqrt{-1}$. Then $\overline{\cos z}$ =$\cos z$$cos\overline{z}$$\sin z$$\sin\overline{z}$

The eigenvalues of the matrix $A=\begin{bmatrix}1 &-1 &5\\0 &5 &6\\0 &-6 &5\end{bmatrix}$ are$-1,\;5,\;6$$1,\;-5\pm j6$$1,\;5\pm j6$$1,\;5,\;5$

A system is described by the following differential equation:$\frac {dy(t)}{dt}+2y(t)=\frac {dx(t)}{dt}+x(t),\;x(0)=y(0)=0$where $\text{x(t)}$ and $\text{y(t)}$ are the i...

A box has 8 red balls and 8 green balls. Two balls are drawn randomly in succession from the box without replacement. The probability that the first ball drawn is red and...

A 3 x 3 matrix has eigenvalues 1, 2 and 5. The determinant of the matrix is $\_\_\_\_$.

The function p(x) is given by p(x) = A/x$^\mu$ where A and $\mu$ are constants with $\mu$ 1 and 1 $\le$ x <$\infty$ and p(x) = 0 for -$\infty$ < x <1. For p(x) to be a ...