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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2012, 10:52:20 am »
I found most of it quite easy.
The last part of questions 9 and 10 were the only challenge for me.
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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2012, 10:53:23 am »
I bombed ): Usually get around 30-34 but I'll be lucky to get 25 this time around. It's pretty disappointing, I screwed up the first question after splitting it into two parts not clicking that x/(x^2+1) is a log integral.

Screwed up Q3 even though my argand diagram is right (I even said 3 was a point in q3a) because I didn't think it was a all real question because z was an element of C... how rookie is that?

I couldn't get the value of the tension, if I had more time I would have been able to.

I wasn't able to get the speed, even though I had the right method, as I couldn't simplify the roots. I didn't do the derivative when t=1 question.

Sucked on the last two parts of the final question.

Pretty much if I didn't screw up the easy questions I would have been able to get 30 or so, but I screwed them up so will get less

Pretty much in the same boat. The Q.3 screwed me over cause it said the other two answers where in the form a+bi so I was so confused as to how we would get three solutions with i in them when it had all real coefficients, didn't even click that it could be 0i :|
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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2012, 10:53:45 am »
Did anyone get the angle in terms of ? I couldn't get it either...
it was  pi - arccos(a number i forgot)
Did you get that?

i got pi-arccos((sqrt(6)-sqrt(2))/4) or something like that??

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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2012, 10:54:03 am »
Did anyone get the angle in terms of ? I couldn't get it either...

I got 7pi/12 for it. I just calculated cos(pi/3 + pi/4) and by sheer coincidence, it seemed to work. I'm not sure if there was a better method, though...
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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2012, 10:54:05 am »
lol i got problem in q2, only me?
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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2012, 10:55:39 am »
Did anyone get the angle in terms of ? I couldn't get it either...
it was  pi - arccos(a number i forgot)
Did you get that?

i got pi-arccos((sqrt(6)-sqrt(2))/4) or something like that??

and arccos((sqrt(6) - sqrt(2)) / 4) = 5pi/12
So you get pi - 5pi/12 = 7pi/12
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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2012, 10:55:50 am »
Did anyone get the angle in terms of ? I couldn't get it either...
it was  pi - arccos(a number i forgot)
Did you get that?

i got pi-arccos((sqrt(6)-sqrt(2))/4) or something like that??
yeap it was exactly that
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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #22 on: November 09, 2012, 10:57:47 am »
someone kill me already.

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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2012, 11:01:43 am »
lol i got problem in q2, only me?
Nope.. Was it a general solution?
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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #24 on: November 09, 2012, 11:01:56 am »
For question 2, I forgot the general solution for sin, so I wrote:
 x= pi/3 +- 2*pi*n and x= 2pi/3 +- 2*pi*n where n is ...,-1,0,1,.... Would I lose marks for this?

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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #25 on: November 09, 2012, 11:02:13 am »
i did q2 the methods way which was probably wrong

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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #26 on: November 09, 2012, 11:02:54 am »
For the general solution, I said the right answer in terms of n, but I forgot to specify that n E Z. Will I lose a mark for that?
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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #27 on: November 09, 2012, 11:03:09 am »
For question 2, I forgot the general solution for sin, so I wrote:
 x= pi/3 +- 2*pi*n and x= 2pi/3 +- 2*pi*n where n is ...,-1,0,1,.... Would I lose marks for this?
 

 haha i did that too

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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #28 on: November 09, 2012, 11:03:22 am »
for every question i was doing i felt like everything i was doing was wrong
like i knew what to do but the simple things just took me ages to calculate

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Re: How did we all go?
« Reply #29 on: November 09, 2012, 11:05:01 am »
i did q2 the methods way which was probably wrong
that was right but you give general solution
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