First Hourly


 

14.1 Keywords for First Hourly

This is a bit of a checklist. Make your own list. But here is a checklist which tries to be comprehensive. Check off the topics you know and check back with things you do not recall. You will need to have the following on your finger tips.

14.1.1 Theorems

14.1.2 Proofs

14.1.3 Algorithms

14.1.4 Objects

14.1.5 Differentiation

14.1.6 Integration

14.1.7 Coordinate systems

14.1.8 Parametrized Surfaces

14.1.9 People

14.1.10 Geometry of Space

14.1.11 Lines, Planes, Functions

14.1.12 Level surfaces

14.1.13 Distance formulas

14.1.14 Functions

14.1.15 Curves

14.1.16 Coordinates

14.1.17 Surfaces

14.2 First Hourly (Practice A)

Problem 14A.1 (10 points):

The Fibonacci numbers are defined recursively as follows: start with \(F_{0}=0\), \(F_{1}=1\) then define \(F_{n+1}=F_{n}+F_{n-1}\), so that \(F_{2}=1\), \(F_{3}=2\), \(F_{4}= 3\), \(F_{5}=5\) etc. Prove that \[F_{0}+F_{1}+\cdots+F_{n}=F_{n+2}-1\] for every positive integer \(n\).

Problem 14A.2 (10 points):

Let \[A=\left[\begin{array}{ll} 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{array}\right], \quad B=\left[\begin{array}{ll} 0 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{array}\right].\]

  1. (4 points) Compute \(A B\) and \(\operatorname{rref}(A B)\).
  2. (4 points) Now row reduce both \(A\) and \(B\) and form \(\operatorname{rref}(A) \operatorname{rref}(B)\).
  3. (2 points) Is the statement \(\operatorname{rref}(A B)=\operatorname{rref}(A) \operatorname{rref}(B)\) true for all \(A\), \(B\)?

Problem 14A.3 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Parametrize the line through \((1,1,1)\) and \((4,3,1)\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\).
  2. (2 points) Parametrize the ellipse \(x^{2} / 16+y^{2} / 25=1\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\).
  3. (2 points) Parametrize the graph \(y=x^{5}+x\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\).
  4. (2 points) Parametrize the circle \(x^{2}+(y-2)^{2}=1\), \(z=4\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\).
  5. (2 points) Parametrize the line \(x=y=z\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\).

Problem 14A.4 (10 points):

Find the arc length of the curve \[r(t)=\left[t \cos (t^{2}), t \sin (t^{2}), t^{2}\right]\] for \(0 \leq t \leq 2\).

Problem 14A.5 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) What is the Heine-Cantor theorem?
  2. (2 points) Formulate the triangle inequality.
  3. (2 points) What is the Al Kashi identity?
  4. (2 points) Give the name of a nowhere differentiable function.
  5. (2 points) Is it true that a continuous curve \(r(t)\) has a finite arc length?

Problem 14A.6 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Find \((3+i)(4+2i)\).
  2. (2 points) What is \(e^{i 3 \pi / 4}\)?
  3. (2 points) Convert from cylindrical \((r, \theta, z)=(2, \pi / 2,1)\) to Cartesian.
  4. (2 points) What are the spherical coordinates of \((1, \sqrt{3}, 2)\)?
  5. (2 points) What surface is in spherical coordinates given as \(\rho \sin (\phi)=1\)?

Problem 14A.7 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) You are given \(r^{\prime \prime \prime}(t) = (3, 4, 5)\) and \(r(0)=(7,8,9)\) and \(r^{\prime}(0)=(1,0,0)\) and \(r^{\prime \prime}(0)=(0,1,0)\). Find \(r(1)\).
  2. (5 points) What is the curvature of \(r(t)=[t, t+t^{2}, t+t^{2}+t^{3}]\) at \(t=0\)?

Problem 14A.8 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) Find a parametrization \(r(u, v)\) of the cylinder \(x^{2}+z^{2}=9\).
  2. (5 points) Find \(r(u, v)\) for the paraboloid \(y^{2}+3 z^{2}=x\).

Problem 14A.9 (10 points):

Let \[A=\left[\begin{array}{ll}1 & 1 \\ 2 & 1 \\ 1 & 1\end{array}\right].\]

  1. (2 points) The image of \(A\) is a plane. By using the cross product, write it as \(a x+b y+c z=d\).
  2. (2 points) What is the first fundamental form \(g=A^{T} A\)?
  3. (2 points) From a) you have \([a, b, c]^{T}=v \times w\). Find \(\sqrt{a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}}\).
  4. (2 points) Find the distortion factor \(\|A\|=\sqrt{\operatorname{det}(A^{T} A)}\) of \(A\).
  5. (2 points) What theorem was involved to see \(\|A\|=|v \times w|\)?

Problem 14A.10 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) What is the Jacobian matrix \(d f\) of the map \[f(x, y, z)=\left[x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}, x+y,-x^{2}\right]^{T}?\]
  2. (5 points) Find the distortion factor \(\operatorname{det}(d f)\).

14.3 First Hourly (Practice B)

Problem 14B.1 (10 points):

Prove that \(1+2+4+8+\cdots+2^{n}=2^{n+1}-1\) for every positive integer \(n\).

Problem 14B.2 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) Row reduce the matrix \[A=\left[\begin{array}{llll}1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 2 & 3 & 4 & 5\end{array}\right].\]
  2. (5 points) Compute the matrix product \[\left[\begin{array}{lll}3 & 4 & 5\end{array}\right] A\left[\begin{array}{l}1 \\ 1 \\ 1 \\ 1\end{array}\right].\]

Problem 14B.3 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Parametrize the curve \(x=\sin (y)\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\).
  2. (2 points) Parametrize the curve \(r=\sin ^{2}(5 \theta)\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\).
  3. (2 points) Parametrize the curve \(y=x^{5}+x\), \(z=4\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\).
  4. (2 points) Parametrize the line \(2 x+y=4\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\).
  5. (2 points) Parametrize the ellipse \((x-1)^{2}+y^{2}/4=1\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\).

Problem 14B.4 (10 points):

Find the arc length of the curve \[r(t)=\left[\begin{array}{c} e^{t} \\ e^{-t} \\ \sqrt{2} t \end{array}\right]\] for \(0 \leq t \leq 1\).

Problem 14B.5 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Formulate the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
  2. (2 points) What formula gives the area of the parallelogram spanned by two vectors \(v\) and \(w\)?
  3. (2 points) What formula gives the volume of a parallelepiped spanned by three vectors \(u\), \(v\), \(w\)?
  4. (2 points) Who invented the quaternions?
  5. (2 points) Assume \(\operatorname{rref}(A)=\operatorname{rref}(B)\). Does this mean \(A=B\)?

Problem 14B.6 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Write the complex number \(z=e^{-i \pi / 2}\) in the form \(z=a+i b\).
  2. (2 points) Which point \((x, y, z)\) has the cylindrical coordinates \((r, \theta, z)=(1, \pi / 2,0)\)?
  3. (2 points) What are the spherical coordinates \((\rho, \phi, \theta)\) of the point \((x, y, z)=(\sqrt{2}, \sqrt{2},-2)\)?
  4. (2 points) What surface is \(\rho \sin ^{2}(\phi)=\cos (\phi)\)? Give the name and write it in Cartesian coordinates.
  5. (2 points) What surface is given in cylindrical coordinates by the equation \(r \sin (\theta)=2\)?

Problem 14B.7 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) You are given \[r^{\prime \prime}(t)=\left[\begin{array}{l}0 \\ 3 \\ t\end{array}\right], \quad r(0)=\left[\begin{array}{l}0 \\ 0 \\ 0\end{array}\right], \quad r^{\prime}(0)=\left[\begin{array}{l}1 \\ 0 \\ 0\end{array}\right].\] Find \(r(1)\).
  2. (5 points) What is the curvature of \[r(t)=\left[\begin{array}{c}\cos (t) \\ \sin (t) \\ t\end{array}\right]\] at \(t=0\)?

Problem 14B.8 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the cone \(x^{2}+y^{2}=z^{2}\).
  2. (2 points) Find a parametrization of \(x^{2} / 4+y^{2} / 9+z^{2} / 16=1\).
  3. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the surface \(x^{2}-y^{2}=z\).
  4. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the plane \(z=2\).
  5. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the cylinder \(x^{2}+z^{2}=1\).

Problem 14B.9 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) Find the dot product \(A \cdot B=\operatorname{tr}(A^{T} B)\) between the two matrices \[\begin{aligned} & A=\left[\begin{array}{ll} 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{array}\right], \\ & B=\left[\begin{array}{ll} 0 & 1 \\ 1 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 \end{array}\right]. \end{aligned}\]
  2. (5 points) Find the cosine of the angle between these two matrices.

Problem 14B.10 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) What is the Jacobian matrix \(d f\) of the coordinate change \[f\left(\left[\begin{array}{l} x \\ y \end{array}\right]\right)=\left[\begin{array}{c} 2 x-y+\sin (x) \\ x \end{array}\right].\]
  2. (5 points) What is the distortion factor \(\operatorname{det}(d f)\) of the map \(f\) which by the way is called the Chirikov map.

14.4 First Hourly

Problem 14.1 (10 points):

Prove by induction that that for every \(n \geq 1\) the formula \(2 \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} 3^{k}=\) \(3^{n}-1\) holds.

Problem 14.2 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) Row reduce the matrix \[A=\left[\begin{array}{lllll}0 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ 4 & 4 & 4 & 4 & 4 \\ 2 & 2 & 2 & 2 & 2\end{array}\right]\] using basic row reduction steps.
  2. (5 points) For \(B=\left[\begin{array}{lll}1 & 1 & 1\end{array}\right]\) compute either \(A B\) or \(B A\) depending on which of the two makes sense.

Problem 14.3 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Parametrize the curve \(4 x^{2}+y^{2}=1\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\).
  2. (2 points) Parametrize the curve \(y-e^{x}=0\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\).
  3. (2 points) Parametrize the curve \(x=y^{3}\), \(z=4\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\).
  4. (2 points) Parametrize the line \(x+y=4\), \(z=2\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\).
  5. (2 points) Parametrize the circle \(x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}=4\), \(z=1\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\).

Problem 14.4 (10 points):

  1. (8 points) Compute arc length of \(r(t)=\left[\frac{t^{3}}{3}, \sqrt{2} \frac{t^{4}}{4}, \frac{t^{5}}{5}\right]\) for \(0 \leq t \leq 1\).
  2. (2 points) Without doing any calculation, what is the arc length of the new parametrization \(r(t^{3})\) with \(0 \leq t \leq 1\)?

Problem 14.5 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Formulate the \(\mathrm{Al}\) Khashi formula.
  2. (2 points) We have seen a theorem of Heine-\(\ldots\ldots\). Fill in the second name!
  3. (2 points) The linear space \(\{x \mid A x=0\}\) is also called the \(\ldots\ldots\) of \(A\).
  4. (2 points) Give the Euler’s formula \(e^{i t}=\ldots\ldots\) and deduce the "most beautiful formula in math".
  5. (2 points) Is \[\operatorname{rref}(A)=\left[\begin{array}{ll}0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0\end{array}\right]\] row reduced?

Problem 14.6 (10 points):

  1. (2 points) Express \(z=e^{i \pi / 2}+3 e^{i \pi}\) in the form \(z=a+i b\).
  2. (2 points) Write \((r, \theta, z)=(2,-\pi / 2,0)\) in Cartesian coordinates.
  3. (2 points) Write \((x, y, z)=(2,2,0)\) in spherical coordinates \((\rho, \phi, \theta)\).
  4. (2 points) Write the surface \(\rho \cos (\phi)=2\) in Cartesian coordinates.
  5. (2 points) Write the surface \(r \cos (\theta)=2\) in Cartesian coordinates.

Problem 14.7 (10 points):

  1. (5 points) You are given \[r^{\prime \prime}(t)=\left[\begin{array}{c}0 \\ 1 \\ \cos (t)\end{array}\right], \quad r(0)=\left[\begin{array}{l}2 \\ 3 \\ 4\end{array}\right], \quad r^{\prime}(0)=\left[\begin{array}{l}1 \\ 2 \\ 0\end{array}\right].\] Find \(r(1)\).
  2. (2 points) Is there a time \(t\) such that the curve \(r(t)\) ever reaches the ground \(z=0\)?
  3. (3 points) What is the curvature of \[r(t)=\left[\begin{array}{c}t^{2} \\ \cos (t) \\ \sin (t)\end{array}\right]\] at \(t=0\)?

Problem 14.8 (10 points):

We parametrize some surfaces. Choose the parameters on your own.

  1. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the hyperboloid \(x^{2}+y^{2}-z^{2}=1\).
  2. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the cylinder \((x-1)^{2} / 4+y^{2} / 9=1\).
  3. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the surface \(z=\cos (x y)\).
  4. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the plane \(x+y-3 z=1\).
  5. (2 points) Find a parametrization of the cylinder \(x^{2} / 9+(y-2)^{2}=1\).

Problem 14.9 (10 points):

  1. (4 points) Compute the dot product (inner product) \(A \cdot B=\operatorname{tr}(A^{T} B)\) of the two matrices \[A=\left[\begin{array}{lll} 1 & 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 & 1 \end{array}\right], \quad B=\left[\begin{array}{lll} 0 & 1 & 2 \\ 2 & 3 & 3 \end{array}\right]\]
  2. (4 points) Now determine the cosine of the angle between \(A\) and \(B\).
  3. (2 points) Finally find the distance \(|A-B|\) between \(A\) and \(B\).

Problem 14.10 (10 points):

  1. (4 points) What is the Jacobian matrix \(d r\) of the coordinate change \[r\left(\left[\begin{array}{l} x \\ y \end{array}\right]\right)=\left[\begin{array}{c} 4 x+y \\ y^{2} \end{array}\right]?\]
  2. (2 points) Now find the first fundamental form \(g=d r^{T} d r\).
  3. (2 points) Compute the distortion factor \(|\operatorname{det}(d r)|\).
  4. (2 points) Check in this case that \(|\operatorname{det}(d r)|=\sqrt{\operatorname{det}(g)}\).