Manipal Engineering Manipal Engineering Solved Paper-2008

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    The arbitrary constant on which the value of the determinant \[\left| \begin{matrix}    1 & \alpha  & {{\alpha }^{2}}  \\    \cos (p-d)a & \cos pa & \cos (p-d)a  \\    \sin (p-d)a & \sin pa & \sin (p-d)a  \\ \end{matrix} \right|\]does not depend, is

    A)  \[\alpha \]                                         

    B)  p   

    C)  d                           

    D)         a

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    Let\[\Delta =\left| \begin{matrix}    1 & \alpha  & {{\alpha }^{2}}  \\    \cos (p-d)a & \cos pa & \cos (p-d)a  \\    \sin (p-d)a & \sin pa & \sin (p-d)a  \\ \end{matrix} \right|\] Applying\[{{C}_{3}}\to {{C}_{3}}-{{C}_{1}}\], we get \[\Rightarrow \Delta =\left| \begin{matrix}    1 & \alpha  & {{\alpha }^{2}}-1  \\    \cos (p-d)a & \cos pa & 0  \\    \sin (p-d)a & \sin pa & 0  \\ \end{matrix} \right|\]                                 \[=({{\alpha }^{2}}-1)\{-\cos pa\sin (p-d)a\]                                                 \[+\sin pa\cos (p-d)a\}\]                 \[=({{\alpha }^{2}}-1)\sin \{-p(p-d)a+pa\}\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[\Delta =({{\alpha }^{2}}-1)\sin da\] which is independent of\[p\].


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