

1. Consider a car on a three lane highway. We will model this system as a...
Two major cities are connected by a three-lane highway in each direction. Let E1, E2, and E3 denote the right-hand, center, and left-hand lane, respectively. Upon inspection, the maintenance engineer concludes that the probability that each of these three lanes will require major repair work in the next year are 0.10, 0.05, and 0.01, respectively. From past experience, the following information is available: P(E2 /E1) =0,8 ,PE3 /E2) =0,9 ,P(E3 /E1) =0,5 ,and P(E3 /E1 E2) =0,9 (a) What is...
A six-lane divided highway (three lane in each direction) is on rolling terrain with two access points per mile and has 10-ft. lanes, with a 5-ft. shoulder on the right side and a 3-ft. shoulder on the left side. The peak-hour factor is 0.80, and the directional peak-hour volume is 3000 vehicles per hour. There are 6% large trucks, 2% buses, and 2% recreational vehicles. A significant percentage of nonfamiliar roadway users are in the traffic stream (the driver population...
Develop a state-transition diagram for the operation of a linear motion positioning table system that operates as follows. The system is controlled by three commands: Move Right, Move Left, and Stop, which cause the system to move right, left, or stop, respectively. At each end of the travel, a limit switch is mounted that should cause the system to stop if the table touches the switch. Show the different states and the conditions that cause transitions between states.
Exercise 1 [I8 pts]. Two lanes of a three-lane highway are closed because of road works on a 2 km long segment. A detector placed on one single lane in the undisturbed zone upstream the road works detects a flow of 2,000 veh/h and an average speed of 100 km/h. A second detector placed on one of the two lanes just upstream the roadwork zone detects a flow of 800 veh/h and an average speed of 40 km/h. We observe...
2. At the right is a section of an infinite grid--enough has been diagrammed to make the pattern clear. Some nodes are white and some are grey. Two nodes are "neighbours" if they are connected by an edge. In each time unit, a counter occupying a node moves to each of its three neighbours with probability 1/3. (a) Suppose a counter is on a grey node. Calculate, by tracking the counter, the probability that it is on a grey node...
2. At the right is a section of an infinite grid--enough has been diagrammed to make the pattern clear. Some nodes are white and some are grey. Two nodes are neighbours" if they are connected by an edge. In each time unit, a counter occupying a node moves to each of its three neighbours with probability 1/3. (a) Suppose a counter is on a grey node. Calculate, by tracking the counter, the probability that it is on a grey node...
A Markov chain model for the growth and replacement of trees assumes that there are three stages of growth based on the size of the tree; young tree, mature tree, and old tree. The transition period considered is 8 years. In each period of 8 years: (1) 30% of the young trees remain young and the rest of the young trees become mature; (2) Among the mature trees, 40% remain mature and the rest become old; (3) Old trees die...
7. [1/3 Points] AR TOUR DETAILS PREVIOUS ANSWERS OSCOLPHYS2016 18.5.WA.038. Three charged marbles are glued to a nonconducting surface and are placed in the diagram as shown. The charges of each marble are: -6.95 C, 4 - 1.80 C, and 4 = -1.75 C. Marble, is a distancer, -3.00 cm to the left of the marble 4. while marble, is a distance ry - 2.00 cm to the right of the marbley, as shown. Calculate the magnitude of the electric...
3. There are three ponds, each occupied by a large number of frogs. Every day, a certain fraction of the frogs from each pond migrate to one of the two neighbouring ponds according to the diagram at the right. Thus the number of frogs in each pond changes from day to day according to the following dynamical system: 0 Xn+1 Zr The eigenvalues of this matrix are λ-1,A-0.6 and λ-05. 0.1 (a) Find eigenvectors for each of these eigenvalues. (b)...
3. Diagrams, networks, models and commuting [40 marks) commuting by car from north of the city to the Uni, I ask myself a simple question cach moming: for the most efficient journey, should I choose the left lane (Path A - Cahill Expressway) or the right lane (Path B -City/Airport) to go over the Harbour Bridge and on towards Darling Harbour? Choose A or B Cross Bus Lane Elaven Merge (A3/B3) Figure 2: An aerial view of the road layout...