Assignment Brief (RQF)
Assignment Brief (RQF)
Higher National Certificate in
Engineering
Student Name/ID Number:
Unit Number and Title: Unit 2 - Engineering Maths M/615/1476
Academic Year: 2023-2024
Unit Assessor: Reiss Bennett
Assignment Title: 1 - Mathematical Methods and Statistical Techniques
Issue Date: 29/02/2024
Submission Date: 12/03/2024
Internal Verifier Name: Lance Burkitt
Date: 27/02/2023
Submission Format:
The submission is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written
in a concise, formal business style using single spacing and font size 12. You are
required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate and
all work must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard
referencing system. Provide a bibliography using the Harvard referencing system.
The recommended word limit is 900–1000 words. You will not be penalised for
exceeding the total word limit.
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Assignment Brief (RQF)
Unit Learning Outcomes:
LO1 Identify the relevance of mathematical methods to a variety of
conceptualised engineering examples
LO2 Investigate applications of statistical techniques to interpret, organise and
present data
Assignment Brief and Guidance:
Scenario
With the advancement of technology, the design process is becoming
increasingly complex. The industrial competitiveness coupled with the
globalisation of the economy has forced the engineering and science
communities to look for designs that are good not only for a single application
but several applications grouped together. As part of your task as an engineering
manager within a research-based engineering establishment. The calculations
carried out in engineering and science lead to a result which is not just a pure
number but rather a number with a physical meaning.
Throughout your report specify key terms, giving definitions where appropriate
to ensure the content can be understood by a non-technical audience.
Written Report
Task 1
1) The speed of light
In 1983 the General Conference on Weights and Measures defined the
speed of light to be c=299,792,458 metres/second.
Using dimensional analysis, determine the speed of light in Km/h?
2) Using dimensional analysis, determine the unit of power.
3) Find the first four terms in each sequence
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Assignment Brief (RQF) following geometric progression. 2 + 8 + 32 + . .
.
6) Use the rules of Logarithms to:
4) Consider the arithmetic series
20+18+16+14+… − Find x in terms of y in this equation
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− Find the sum of the 1st 25 terms.
− Find x when y=2.
− Find n such that Sn=-760
7) Prove the hyperbolic function below
5) Find the sum of the first 15 terms of the
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8) Using the B
cosine rule,
find the length
AC when the
boom (AB) is
30m and the
jib (BC) is 12m.
Angle
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A
C
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Assignment Brief (RQF) to expand in the next year. In a sample of twenty
companies chosen at random drawn from this
population, find the probability that the number
of companies which have announced plans to
expand in the next year will be
(i) Precisely three
Task 2 (ii) fewer than three
(iii) three or more
(iv) Precisely five
1) (v) Find the mean, the variance, and the standard
deviation.
The company considers itself to have quality
processes in line with 6 principles 2)
measurement of inspection time, from a large
As an engineering Manager, and with an
sample of a specific engine part, gave the
expanding company, you are required to hire a
following distribution. Find the mean, the new member of staff.
variance, and the standard deviation of the data
(in seconds) plotting results on a graph using You are hiring for a new design engineer and as
appropriate software. part of the pre-screening process the applicants
Time (sec) 50-79 80-109 110- are required to complete an online aptitude test.
139 There were 250 applicants and their test scores
are distributed normally with a mean of 60 and
Number 1 5 11 standard deviation of 10.
a) What is the probability that the applicants will
score between 50% and 70%?
Use the Binomial distribution to find the
probability of the following problem:
b) Approximately, how many applicants will pass
Suppose that 36% of companies in a certain the screening process if the pass mark is 60%?
sector of the economy have announced plans
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Assignment Brief (RQF)
Task 3
Measurement of inspection time, from a large sample of
outsourced components, gave the following distribution:
Time (sec) 20 22 24 25 27 28 29 31 Number 1 3 2 3 4 3 3 4
Your Engineering Director thinks that the inspection time should be the same
for all outsourced components. Using the data provided, test this hypothesis
and indicate whether there is a correlation or not. Assume significance level
is 0.05 and the data is non-directional.
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Assignment Brief (RQF)
Learning Outcomes Pass Merit Distinction
LO1 Identify the P1 Apply M1 Use LO1 & LO2
relevance of dimensional dimensional
mathematical analysis analysis to D1 Present data
methods to a techniques to derive equations in a method that
variety of solve complex can be
conceptualised problems understood by a
engineering non-technical
examples audience
P2 Generate
answers from
contextualised
arithmetic and
geometric
progressions
P3 Determine
solutions of
equations using
exponential,
trigonometric
and hyperbolic
functions
LO2 Investigate P4 Summarise M2 Interpret the
applications of data by results of a
statistical calculating statistical
techniques to mean and hypothesis test
interpret, standard conducted from
organise and deviation, and a given scenario
present data simplify data
into graphical
form.
P5 Calculate
probabilities
within both
binomially
distributed and
normally
distributed
random
variables.
Student work starts here:
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