UNIVERSITY OF MALTA

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
B.Eng. (Hons.) Year III
January 2015 Examination Session
MAT3815 Mathematics for Engineers III
9.15 a.m. - 11.15 a.m.

24th January 2015

Answer ONLY three questions.

Only the booklets of mathematical formulae and calculators provided by the
Faculty of Science can be used.
Useful vector identities are included at the end of this paper.

1. (a) The volume of a rectangular tank open at the top is 4 cubic meters.
If the base of the tank measures x by y meters, show that the tanks
surface area A in square meters is xy + y8 + x8 . Find the dimensions of
the tank for A to be a minimum.
17 marks
(b) If A, B and C are the angles of a plane triangle, find by using the
method of Lagranges multipliers, the maximum value of the function
f (A, B, C) = sin A sin B sin C.
18 marks
2. (a) State Gauss theorem.
An electrostatic vector field E is defined throughout a region V bounded
by the closed surface S. An associated scalar potential function is
given by E = grad, where it is assumed that vanishes on the
boundary S. The total energy W of the field is given by
Z
1
dV,
W =
2 V
where the charge density is determined by the equation divE = 4.
Deduce that
Z
1
W =
E 2 dV,
8 V
where E = |E|.
(Hint: In this part of the question you may need to use one or more
of the vector identities.)
18 marks
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(b) Evaluate
Z

(sin x + y 2 ) dx + (x ey ) dy,

where C is the boundary of the semicircular region x2 + y 2 4, y 0,

taken in the anticlockwise sense.
17 marks

3. (a) Using cylindrical polar coordinates (, , z) or otherwise, evaluate the

triple integral
ZZZ
3
z dxdydz,
16
Q
where Q is the solid bounded by the paraboloid z = x2 + y 2 , the
cylinder x2 + y 2 = 4 and the xy-plane.
17 marks
(b) State Stokes Theorem.
If is a scalar field and B is a vector field defined on an open surface
S bounded by a closed curve C, show that
Z
Z
Z
curlB.dS =
B.dr (grad B).dS.
S

Hence if B = grad show that

Z
Z
Z
( ).dS = ().dr = ().dr.
S

18 marks

4. (a) Find the work done by the force F = (yz + 2z)i + xzj + (xy + 2x)k
in moving a particle from the point A(1, 0, 1) to the point B(0, 1, 1)
along a path consisting of two straight line segments AC and CB,
where C is the point (0, 0, 1).
17 marks
R

(b) Evaluate S A.n dS, where A = 4xi 2y 2 j + z 2 x2 k over the curved

surface S of the open cylinder x2 + y 2 = 4, 0 z 3, where n is the
outward normal to S.
18 marks
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Useful Vector Identities

In the following identities F, G, and H are vector fields and is a scalar
field.
1. div(F) = divF + F.grad
2. div(F G) = G.curlF F.curlG
3. div(curlF) = 0
4. curl(grad) = 0
5. curl(F) = curlF + (grad) F
6. curlcurlF = graddivF 2 F
7. grad(F.G) = F curlG + G curlF + (F.)G + (G.)F
8. curl(F G) = FdivG GdivF + (G.)F (F.)G
9. F.(G H) = H.(F G) = G.(H F)

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