MA2104

National University of Singapore

MA2104 Multivariable Calculus

Semester II (2021–2022)
Time allowed: 2 hours
Instructions to candidates:

1. Use A4 size paper and pen (blue or black ink) to write your answers.

2. Write down your student number clearly on the top left of every page of the answers. Do
not write your name.

3. This examination paper contains EIGHT (8) questions and comprises of NINE (9) pages.
Answer ALL questions.

4. The total mark for this paper is FIFTY (50).

5. This is an OPEN BOOK examination. You may refer to your lecture notes, tutorials and
assignments. No other resource, online or otherwise, is permitted during the exam.

6. You may use any calculator. However, you should lay our systematically the various steps
in the calculations.

7. Join the Zoom conference using your mobile phone and turn on the video camera at all
times during the exam. Adjust your camera such that your face and upper body (including
your hands), as well as your computer screen are captured on Zoom.

8. You may go for a short toilet break (not more than 5 minutes) during the exam.

9. At the end of the exam,

• Scan or take pictures of your work (make sure the images can be read clearly);
• Merge all your images into one pdf file (arrange them in order from Q1 to Q8 in their
page sequence);
• Name the pdf file by Matric No Module Code (e.g. A123456R MA2104);
• Upload your pdf into the LumiNUS folder “Exam Submission”.

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1. (3 marks) Let S be the part of the plane 4x + 2y + z = 4 where 0 ≤ x, y ≤ 1. Suppose

that f : R3 → R is a three-variable function such that
1 1 5 1 3 3 3 1 1 3 3 1
f ( , , ) = 3, f ( , , ) = −1, f ( , , ) = 2, and f ( , , − ) = 7.
4 4 2 4 4 2 4 4 2 4 4 2
Estimate the integral of f along the surface S by cutting S into four pieces of equal area.

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 2 
3x y + sin x cos x + y 2
2. (4 marks) Let F be the vector field given by F(x, y) = . Let
x3 + 2xy + y 2
C be the part of the curve y = x2 − π 2 + sin(π − x) oriented from (−π, 0) to (0, −π 2 ).
Calculate Z
F · dr.
C

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3. (4 marks) Let C be an oriented curve in R3 parameterized by R(t) = (t, t2 , 3t2 ) for 0 ≤

t ≤ 1, and let n(t) be a unit normal vector to C at R(t). Let F be a vector
√ field such that
||F|| = 1. Suppose that the scalar projection of F(R(t)) onto n(t) is 1 − t2 for all t, and
that the angle between R0 (t) and F(R(t)) is acute. Calculate the integral of F along C.

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4. (3 marks) Suppose that f is a continuous, 2-variable function such that f (x, y) = f (x, −y)
for all (x, y) ∈ R2 . Suppose that
Z 0Z 1 Z 1Z 2 Z 2Z 2
1
f (x, y) dxdy = , f (x, y) dxdy = 6, and f (x, y) dxdy = 1.
−1 −2 3 −1 1 1 −2

Calculate Z 2 Z 2
f (x, y) dxdy.
0 −2

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5. (4 marks) Write the iterated integral

Z 1 Z 1−x2 Z 1−|x|
f (x, y, z) dz dy dx
−1 0 0

as an iterated integral in the order dy dx dz.

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6. A dust particle is floating in the air, which we model by R3 . When t = 0, the particle is
at the origin. The probability that its position when t = 1 is at (x, y, z) has density
( p
√ 21 2 2 3 if x2 + y 2 + z 2 ≤ k,
f (x, y, z) = 10(1+ (x +y +z ) )
p
0 if x2 + y 2 + z 2 > k.

(a) (4 marks) Find k.

(b) (4 marks) Find the probability that when p t = 1, the dust particle lies in the re-
gion bounded below by the cone z = x2 + y 2 , and bounded above by the surface
p √ z
(x2 + y 2 + z 2 )3 + 1 = e x2 +y2 +z2 .

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7. Model the surface of an ocean by R2 . The depth of the ocean at the point (x, y) is given
by
f (x, y) = 5x2 + 5y 2 + 1.
A research
√ vessel sails on the surface of the ocean from (−2, 0) to (2, 0) along the semi-circle
y = 4 − x2 .

(a) (5 marks) Let R be the region in the surface of the ocean bounded by the lines
x = 2y + 2, x = 2y − 1, 2x + y = 3, and 2x + y = 0. Calculate the volume of sea
water in the ocean beneath the region R.
(b) (3 marks) As the research vessel sails, it measures the depth of the ocean. Find the
average depth measured by the research vessel.
(c) (3 marks) The force due to the ocean current is given by
 2
x
F(x, y) = .
y2

Calculate the work done by the ocean current on the research vessel.

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8. Let F be the vector field on R3 defined by

 
xyz + 1
F(x, y, z) =  −x2 y + y  .
x2 z − 12 yz 2

(a) (2 marks) Is F conservative?

(b) (5 marks) Let E be the cube [0, 1]3 in R3 and E 0 be the cube [0, 21 ]3 in R3 . Let ∂E and
∂E0 respectively denote the boundaries of E and E 0 , both equipped with the outward
orientation, and let S be the oriented surface consisting of the part of ∂E that does
not lie in ∂E0 . Calculate the flux of F across S.
(c) (6 marks) Let C1 be the semicircle in the plane y = 2z with non-negative z coordinate,
oriented from (−1, 0, 0) to (1, 0, 0). Let C2 be the semicircle in the plane z = −2y
with non-negative z coordinate, oriented from (1, 0, 0) to (−1, 0, 0). Calculate the
integral of F along the concatenation C1 · C2 .