Victorian Certificate of Education

2013

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SPECIALIST MATHEMATICS
Written examination 1
Friday 8 November 2013
Reading time: 9.00 am to 9.15 am (15 minutes)
Writing time: 9.15 am to 10.15 am (1 hour)

QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK

Structure of book
Number of
questions

Number of questions
to be answered

Number of
marks

40

Students are permitted to bring into the examination room: pens, pencils, highlighters, erasers,
sharpeners and rulers.
Students are not permitted to bring into the examination room: notes of any kind, a calculator of any
type, blank sheets of paper and/or white out liquid/tape.
Materials supplied
Question and answer book of 11 pages with a detachable sheet of miscellaneous formulas in the
centrefold.
Working space is provided throughout the book.
Instructions
Detach the formula sheet from the centre of this book during reading time.
Write your student number in the space provided above on this page.
All written responses must be in English.
Students are NOT permitted to bring mobile phones and/or any other unauthorised electronic
devices into the examination room.
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Instructions
Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
Unless otherwise specified, an exact answer is required to a question.
In questions where more than one mark is available, appropriate working must be shown.
Unless otherwise indicated, the diagrams in this book are not drawn to scale.
Take the acceleration due to gravity to have magnitude g m/s2, where g = 9.8.

Question 1 (3 marks)
A body of mass 10 kg is held in place on a smooth plane inclined at 30 to the horizontal by a
tension force, T newtons, acting parallel to the plane.
a. On the diagram below, show all other forces acting on the body and label them.

1 mark

30

b.

Find the value of T.

2 marks

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Question 2 (4 marks)
1

Evaluate

x5

x2 5 x + 6 dx .
0

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Question 3 (4 marks)
The coordinates of three points are A(1, 2, 4), B(1, 0, 5) and C(3, 5, 2).

a.

Find AB .

b.

The points A, B and C are the vertices of a triangle.

Prove that the triangle has a right angle at A.

c.

Find the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle.

1 mark

2 marks

1 mark

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Question 4 (6 marks)
a. State the maximal domain and the range of y = arccos(1 2x).

b.

2 marks

Sketch the graph of y = arccos(1 2x) over its maximal domain. Label the endpoints with
their coordinates.

2 marks

c.

Find the gradient of the tangent to the graph of y = arccos(1 2x) at x =

1
.
4

2 marks

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Question 5 (5 marks)
A container of water is heated to boiling point (100 C) and then placed in a room that has a
constant temperature of 20 C. After five minutes the temperature of the water is 80 C.
dT
a. Use Newtons law of cooling
= k (T 20) , where T C is the temperature of the water
dt
3

at time t minutes after the water is placed in the room, to show that e 5k = .
4

b.

Find the temperature of the water 10 minutes after it is placed in the room.

2 marks

3 marks

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Question 6 (4 marks)
Find the value of c, where c R, such that the curve defined by
y2 +

3e( x 1)
=c
x2

has a gradient of2 where x = 1.

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Question 7 (6 marks)
The position vector ~r(t ) of a particle moving relative to an origin O at time t seconds is given by

r (t ) = 4 sec(t ) ~i + 2 tan(t ) j, t 0,
~
2

where the components are measured in metres.

x2 y 2

= 1.
16 4

a.

Show that the cartesian equation of the path of the particle is

b.

Sketch the path of the particle on the axes below, labelling any asymptotes with their
equations.

2 marks

2 marks

c.

Find the speed of the particle, in ms1, when t =

.
4

2 marks

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Question 8 (4 marks)
Find all solutions of z4 2z2 + 4 = 0, z C in cartesian form.

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Question 9 (4 marks)

The shaded region below is enclosed by the graph of y = sin(x) and the lines y = 3x and x = .
3
This region is rotated about the x-axis.
y
3

x=

y = 3x

1
y = sin(x)
O

Find the volume of the resulting solid of revolution.

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Written examinations 1 and 2

FORMULA SHEET

Directions to students
Detach this formula sheet during reading time.
This formula sheet is provided for your reference.

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Specialist Mathematics formulas

Mensuration
area of a trapezium:

1 a+b h
(
)
2

curved surface area of a cylinder:

2rh

volume of a cylinder:

r2h

volume of a cone:

sine rule:

1 2
r h
3
1 Ah
3
4 r3
3
1 bc sin A
2
a
b
c
= =
sin A sin B sin C

cosine rule:

c2 = a2 + b2 2ab cos C

volume of a pyramid:
volume of a sphere:
area of a triangle:

Coordinate geometry
ellipse:

( x h )2 + ( y k )2
a2

b2

= 1

hyperbola:

( x h )2 ( y k )2
a2

b2

=1

Circular (trigonometric) functions

cos2(x) + sin2(x) = 1
1 + tan2(x) = sec2(x) cot2(x) + 1 = cosec2(x)
sin(x + y) = sin(x) cos(y) + cos(x) sin(y) sin(x y) = sin(x) cos(y) cos(x) sin(y)
cos(x + y) = cos(x) cos(y) sin(x) sin(y) cos(x y) = cos(x) cos(y) + sin(x) sin(y)
tan( x + y ) =

tan( x) + tan( y )
1 tan( x) tan( y )

tan( x y ) =

tan( x) tan( y )
1 + tan( x) tan( y )

cos(2x) = cos2(x) sin2(x) = 2 cos2(x) 1 = 1 2 sin2(x)

tan(2 x) =

sin(2x) = 2 sin(x) cos(x)

function

sin1

cos1

tan1

domain

[1, 1]

[1, 1]

2 , 2

[0, ]

,
2 2

range

2 tan( x)
1 tan 2 ( x)

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Algebra (complex numbers)

z = x + yi = r(cos + i sin ) = r cis
z = x 2 + y 2 = r < Arg z
z1 r1
z1z2 = r1r2 cis(1 + 2)
= cis
z2 r2 ( 1 2 )
zn = rn cis(n) (de Moivres theorem)

Calculus
d n
x = nx n 1
dx

x n dx =

1 n +1
x + c, n 1
n +1

d ax
e = ae ax
dx

e ax dx =

1 ax
e +c
a

1
d
( log e ( x) ) =
dx
x
d
( sin(ax) ) = a cos(ax)
dx

1
dx = log e x + c
x

d
( cos(ax) ) = a sin(ax)
dx

1
cos( ax) dx = sin(ax) + c
a

d
( tan(ax) ) = a sec2 (ax)
dx

sec 2 (ax) dx =

d
1
sin 1 ( x) =
dx
1 x2

x
dx = sin 1 + c, a > 0
a
a2 x2

1
d
cos 1 ( x) =
dx
1 x2

x
dx = cos 1 + c, a > 0
a
a2 x2

d
1
tan 1 ( x) =
dx
1 + x2

( )

( )

(
(
(

1
sin( ax) dx = cos(ax) + c
a

1
tan(ax) + c
a

x
dx = tan 1 + c
a +x
a
2

product rule:

dv
du
d
( uv ) = u + v
dx
dx
dx

quotient rule:

du
dv
v
u
d u
dx
dx
=
dx v
v2

chain rule:

dy dy du
=
dx du dx

Eulers method:

If

acceleration:

a=

dy
= f ( x), x0 = a and y0 = b, then xn + 1 = xn + handyn + 1 = yn + hf(xn)
dx
d 2x
dt

dv
dv d 1
= v = v2
dt
dx dx 2

1
1
constant (uniform) acceleration: v = u + ats = ut + at2v2 = u2 + 2ass = (u + v)t
2
2
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Vectors in two and three dimensions

r = x~i + y j + zk~

| ~r | = x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r

~ 1. ~ 2

r = r r cos = x x + y y + z z
1 2
1 2
1 2
1 2

Mechanics
momentum:

p = mv

equation of motion:

R = ma

friction:

F N

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