PHYS 204A Midterm: PHYS 204A Chico State Exam 2 Spring 14
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You are allowed a two-sided letter size paper of notes. Please show all work and justify your answers. Put your name and student id on the front cover of your exam booklet and sign the academic integrity statement. At the top of the front page write the day of the week (monday or tuesday) on which your discussion section meets. Do not return it with the exam booklet. Solutions will be posted on the course website after the exam. 1 . (a) solve the initial value problem x (t) = ax(t) with x(0) = 2 (b) sketch the solution curve. Find the equation y = ax + b of the least-squares line that best ts the data points ( 1, 2), (0, 1), (1, 2), and (2, 3). 1 (a) find the singular values of a. (b) find a singular value decomposition of a. (over)
