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TRINITY COLLEGE INTERVIEW PREPARATION PAPER

ENGINEERING

Sample questions are given below

1 hour

Answer as many questions as you wish.

Start each question on a fresh sheet of paper.

Some questions are longer than others but you are advised to spend no more than 15 minutes
on any one question.

This paper and all your written answers must be taken with you to your interview.

!π
1. Calculate 0 (x sin x)2 dx.

2. A certain medical condition affects one in a thousand of the population. A screening test is
developed that is 95% accurate (in the sense that the probability of testing positive given
you have the condition is 0.95, and you may assume that the test only has two outcomes,
positive and negative). Discuss the probability that you have the condition if the screening
procedure says you do.

3. Investigate the integral


" 3
1
dx
0 (1 − x)2

4. In a tennis tournament there are 2n participants. In the first round of the tournament,
each player plays exactly once, so there are n games. Show that pairings for the first round
can be arranged in exactly (2n − 1)!/2(n−1) (n − 1)! ways.

2
5. If a ball is thrown with speed V at an angle α to the horizontal, show that in polar
coordinates (r, θ) the trajectory is given by

2V 2 cos α sin(α − θ)
r=
gcos2 θ
By differentiating the above expression for r, verify that the maximum range of a projectile
occurs when it is released at an angle of 45◦ .

6. One end of a rod of uniform density is attached to the ceiling in such a way that the rod
can swing about freely with no resistance. The other end of the rod is held still so that it
touches the ceiling as well. Then the second end is released. If the length of the rod is l
metres and gravitational acceleration is g ms−2 , how fast is the unattached end of the rod
moving when the rod is first vertical?

7. The resistance between points A and B is given by the arrangement of individual resis-
tors R1 , R2 , R3 given in Figure 1a. If we now replace this with the new arrangement of
Figure 1b, find the value of Rp such that the total resistance RAB is the same in both
cases.

Figure 1a Figure 1b

8. In the circuit shown in Figure 2 calculate the value (shown as X in figure) of resistor RBE
if the power taken by the 6V battery is 6.6W. All resistances shown are in Ohms.

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Figure 2

9. Let L1 and L2 be two lines in the plane, with equations y = m1 x + c1 and y = m2 x + c2


respectively. Suppose that they intersect at an acute angle θ. Show that
# #
# m1 − m2 #
#
tan θ = # #
1 + m1 m2 #

10. A particle of mass m is released from rest at a height h above the ground. Neglecting
air resistance and assuming gravitational acceleration g is constant, show
$ by dimensional
analysis that the time taken to hit the ground is given by T = C h/g where C is a
dimensionless constant.
Now, if air resistance produces a force equal to −k times the velocity of the particle, so
that T now depends on m, g, h and k, again use dimensional arguments to show that

m
T = τ (λ)
k
where λ = k 2 h/m2 g and τ (λ) is a dimensionless unknown function of the dimensionless
quantity λ.

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