UNDERSTANDING

ENGINEERING
MATHEMATICS
JOHN BIRD
WORKED SOLUTIONS TO
EXERCISES

2014, John Bird

INTRODUCTION

In Understanding Engineering Mathematic there are over 2750 further problems arranged regularly
throughout the text within 370 Exercises. The solutions for all 2750 of these further problems has
been prepared in this document.

CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31

Basic arithmetic (Exercises 1 to 4)

Fractions (Exercises 5 to 7)
Decimals (Exercises 8 to 11)
Using a calculator (Exercises 12 to 22)
Percentages (Exercises 23 to 25)
Ratio and proportion (Exercises 26 to 30)
Powers, roots and laws of indices (Exercises 31 to 33)
Units, prefixes and engineering notation (Exercises 34 to 36)
Basic algebra (Exercises 37 to 40)
Further algebra (Exercises 41 to 43)
Solving simple equations (Exercises 44 to 47)
Transposing formulae (Exercises 48 to 50)
Solving simultaneous equations (Exercises 51 to 55)
Solving quadratic equations (Exercises 56 to 60)
Logarithms (Exercises 61 to 63)
Exponential functions (Exercises 64 to 68)
Inequalities (Exercises 69 to 73)
Polynomial division and the factor and remainder theorems
(Exercises 74 to 76)
Number sequences (Exercises 77 to 33)
Binary, octal and hexadecimal (Exercises 84 to 89)
Partial fractions (Exercises 90 to 92)
The binomial series (Exercises 93 to 96)
Maclaurins series (Exercises 97 to 99)
Hyperbolic functions (Exercises 100 to 103)
Solving equations by iterative methods (Exercises 104 to 106)
Boolean algebra and logic circuits (Exercises 107 to 112)
Areas of common shapes (Exercises 113 to 117)
The circle and its properties (Exercises 118 to 123)
Volumes and surface areas of common solids
(Exercises 124 to 130)
Irregular areas and volumes and mean values
(Exercises 131 to 133)
Straight line graphs (Exercises 134 to 136)
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Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71

Reduction of non-linear laws to linear form

(Exercises 137 to 138)
Graphs with logarithmic scales (Exercises 139 to 141)
Polar curves (Exercise 142)
Graphical solution of equations (Exercises 143 to 146)
Functions and their curves (Exercises 147 to 149)
Angles and triangles (Exercises 150 to 155)
Introduction to trigonometry (Exercises 156 to 162)
Trigonometric waveforms (Exercises 163 to 166)
Cartesian and polar coordinates (Exercises 167 to 168)
Non-right-angled triangles and some practical applications
(Exercises 169 to 172)
Trigonometric identities and equations
(Exercises 173 to 177)
The relationship between trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
(Exercises 178 to 179)
Compound angles (Exercises 180 to 184)
Complex numbers (Exercises 185 to 189)
De Moivres theorem (Exercises 190 to 193)
The theory of matrices and determinants
(Exercises 194 to 198)
Applications of matrices and determinants
(Exercises 199 to 203)
Vectors (Exercises 204 to 208)
Methods of adding alternating waveforms
(Exercises 209 to 213)
Scalar and vector products (Exercises 214 to 216)
Introduction to differentiation (Exercises 217 to 222)
Methods of differentiation (Exercises 223 to 227)
Some applications of differentiation (Exercises 228 to 234)
Differentiation of parametric equations (Exercises 235 to 236)
Differentiation of implicit functions (Exercises 237 to 239)
Logarithmic differentiation (Exercises 240 to 242)
Differentiation of hyperbolic functions (Exercise 243)
Differentiation of inverse trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
(Exercises 244 to 246)
Partial differentiation (Exercises 247 to 248)
Total differential, rates of change and small changes
(Exercises 249 to 251)
Maxima, minima and saddle points for functions of two variables
(Exercises 252 to 253)
Standard integration (Exercises 254 to 255)
Integration using algebraic substitutions
(Exercises 256 to 257)
Integration using trigonometric and hyperbolic substitutions
(Exercises 258 to 264)
Integration using partial fractions (Exercises 265 to 267)
The t = tan /2 substitution (Exercises 268 to 269)
Integration by parts (Exercises 270 to 271)
Reduction formulae (Exercises 272 to 275)
Double and triple integrals (Exercises 276 to 277)
Numerical integration (Exercises 278 to 280)
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Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81

Areas under and between curves (Exercises 281 to 283)

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Mean and root mean square values (Exercises 284 to 285)
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Volumes of solids of revolution (Exercises 286 to 287)
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Centroids of simple shapes (Exercises 288 to 290)
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Second moments of area (Exercises 291 to 292)
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Solution of first-order differential equations by separation of variables
(Exercises 293 to 296)
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Homogeneous first-order differential equations
(Exercises 297 to 298)
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Linear first-order differential equations
(Exercises 299 to 300)
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Numerical methods for first-order differential equations
(Exercises 301 to 303)
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Second-order differential equations of the form a

d2 y
dy
0
+b
+ cy =
2
dx
dx

(Exercises 304 to 305)

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Second-order differential equations of the form a

dy
dy
f (x)
+b
+ cy =
dx
dx 2

(Exercises 306 to 309)

Power series methods of solving ordinary differential equations
(Exercises 310 to 315)
Chapter 84
An introduction to partial differential equations
(Exercises 316 to 320)
Chapter 85
Presentation of statistical data (Exercises 321 to 323)
Chapter 86
Measures of central tendency and dispersion
(Exercises 324 to 327)
Chapter 87
Probability (Exercises 328 to 330)
Chapter 88
The binomial and Poisson distributions
(Exercises 331 to 332)
Chapter 89
The normal distribution (Exercises 333 to 334)
Chapter 90
Linear correlation (Exercise 335)
Chapter 91
Linear regression (Exercise 336 )
Chapter 92
Sampling and estimation theories (Exercises 337 to 339)
Chapter 93
Significance testing (Exercises 340 to 342)
Chapter 94
Chi-square and distribution-free tests (Exercises 343 to 347)
Chapter 95
Introduction to Laplace transforms (Exercise 348)
Chapter 96
Properties of Laplace transforms (Exercises 349 to 351)
Chapter 97
Inverse Laplace transforms (Exercises 352 to 354)
Chapter 98
The Laplace transform of the Heaviside function
(Exercises 355 to 357)
Chapter 99
The solution of differential equations using Laplace transforms
(Exercise 358)
Chapter 100 The solution of simultaneous differential equations using Laplace
transforms (Exercise 359)
Chapter 101 Fourier series for periodic functions of period 2
(Exercise 360)
Chapter 102 Fourier series for a non-periodic functions over period 2
(Exercise 361)
Chapter 103 Even and odd functions and half-range Fourier series
(Exercises 362 to 363)
Chapter 104 Fourier series over any range (Exercises 364 to 365)

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Chapter 106

A numerical method of harmonic analysis

(Exercises 366 to 367)
The complex or exponential form of a Fourier series
(Exercises 368 to 370)

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