Question 1

Solution

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$ \begin{equation*} \left.\begin{aligned} \nabla\cdot \bar{B}&=0\\ \oint_S \bar{B}\cdot d\bar{S}&=0 \end{aligned}\right\} \longrightarrow \Phi=\oint_S \bar{B}\cdot d\bar{S} \Longrightarrow \boxed{ \Phi=\oint_S \bar{B}\cdot d\bar{S}=0} \end{equation*} $

The magnetic flux through this closed surface is $ \Phi $

$ \begin{equation*} \boxed{\Phi=0} \end{equation*} $

Question 2

Solution

$ \begin{align*} \nabla \cdot \bar{D} &= \rho \\ \quad (\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\hat{x}+\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\hat{y}+\frac{\partial}{\partial z}\hat{z})\cdot(2\hat{x})&=\rho \\ \frac{\partial}{\partial x}(2)&=0=\rho \quad \text{(no charge)} \end{align*} $

Also:

$ \begin{align*} \oint \bar{D}\cdot d\bar{S}&=Q\\ &=\int2(dS_x)+\int2(-dS_x)=2-2=\boxed{0} \end{align*} $

Question 3

Solution

Using superposition
In the left cylinder
$ \begin{equation*} \nabla\times \bar{H}=\bar{J} \longrightarrow \oint \bar{H}\cdot d\bar{l}=\int_S\bar{J}\cdot d\bar{S} \qquad \left\{ \begin{aligned} dl&=dr\hat{r}+rd\phi\hat{\phi}+dz\hat{z}\\ d\bar{S}_z&=rd\phi dr\hat{z} \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*} $
$ \begin{align*} \int_0^{2\pi}H_{\phi}(rd\phi)&=\int_0^r\int_0^{2\pi} J_0(r'd\phi dr')\\ H_{\phi}(2\pi r)&=2\pi J_0(\frac{r^2}{2}) \\ & \boxed{\bar{H}=\frac{J_0r}{2}\hat{\phi}} \end{align*} $

$ \begin{align*} \text{Transform to cartesian:}&\left\{\begin{aligned} r&=\sqrt{x^2+y^2}\\ \hat{\phi}&=-sin\phi\hat{x}+cos\phi\hat{y}\\ &=(\frac{-y}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}})\hat{x}+(\frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}})\hat{y} \end{aligned}\right. \\ & \boxed{\bar{H}_L=\frac{J_0}{2}\left[-y\hat{x}+x\hat{y}\right]} \end{align*} $

In the right cilinder
$ \begin{align*} &\bar{H}_R=\frac{-J_0}{2}\left[-y'\hat{x'}+x'\hat{y'}\right]& \left\{ \begin{aligned} x'&=x-3\\ y'&=y\\ \hat{x}'&=\hat{x}\\ \hat{y}'&=\hat{y} \end{aligned} \right.\\ &\boxed{\bar{H}_R=\frac{-J_0}{2}\left[-y\hat{x}+(x-3)\hat{y}\right]}& \end{align*} $

$ \begin{equation*} \boxed{\bar{H}_T=\bar{H}_L+\bar{H}_R=\frac{3J_0}{2}\hat{y}} \end{equation*} $

Question

Part 1.

Consider $ n $ independent flips of a coin having probability $ p $ of landing on heads. Say that a changeover occurs whenever an outcome differs from the one preceding it. For instance, if $ n=5 $ and the sequence $ HHTHT $ is observed, then there are 3 changeovers. Find the expected number of changeovers for $ n $ flips. Hint: Express the number of changeovers as a sum of Bernoulli random variables.

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Part 2.

Let $ X_1,X_2,... $ be a sequence of jointly Gaussian random variables with covariance

$ Cov(X_i,X_j) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} {\sigma}^2, & i=j\\ \rho{\sigma}^2, & |i-j|=1\\ 0, & otherwise \end{array} \right. $

Suppose we take 2 consecutive samples from this sequence to form a vector $ X $, which is then linearly transformed to form a 2-dimensional random vector $ Y=AX $. Find a matrix $ A $ so that the components of $ Y $ are independent random variables You must justify your answer.

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Part 3.

Let $ X $ be an exponential random variable with parameter $ \lambda $, so that $ f_X(x)=\lambda{exp}(-\lambda{x})u(x) $. Find the variance of $ X $. You must show all of your work.

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Part 4.

Consider a sequence of independent random variables $ X_1,X_2,... $, where $ X_n $ has pdf

$ \begin{align}f_n(x)=&(1-\frac{1}{n})\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}\sigma}exp[-\frac{1}{2\sigma^2}(x-\frac{n-1}{n}\sigma)^2]\\ &+\frac{1}{n}\sigma exp(-\sigma x)u(x)\end{align} $.

Does this sequence converge in the mean-square sense? Hint: Use the Cauchy criterion for mean-square convergence, which states that a sequence of random variables $ X_1,X_2,... $ converges in mean-square if and only if $ E[|X_n-X_{n+m}|] \to 0 $ as $ n \to \infty $, for every $ m>0 $.

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