Determine the single force which is equivalent to a force and a couple.

Solve for an angle which will result in equilibrium for a triangle subjected to three couples.   A trial and error solution is recommended.

Find the force required to produce a given moment, or vice-versa.

A sample question

Find the moment of inertia of semi and quarter circles using the parallel axis theorem.

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Some quadratics are to be solved by factorising

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Calculate the distance between two points along the surface of a sphere using the cosine rule of spherical trigonometry. Context is two places on the surface of the Earth, using latitude and longitude.

The question is randomised so that the numerical values for Latitude for A and B will be positive and different (10-25 and 40-70 degrees). As will the values for Longitude (5-25 and 50-75). The question statement specifies both points are North in latitude, but one East and one West longitude, This means that students need to deal with angles across the prime meridian, but not the equator.

Students first calculate the side of the spherical triangle in degrees, then in part b they convert the degrees to kilometers. Part a will be marked as correct if in the range true answer +-1degree, as long as the answer is given to 4 decimal places. This allows for students to make the mistake of rounding too much during the calculation steps.

Student finds a basis for kernel and image of a matrix transformation. Any basis can be entered; there is a custom marking algorithm which checks if it is a correct basis.

There are options to adjust this question fairly easily, for example to get different variants for practice and for a test, by changing the options in the "pivot columns" in the variables. You should be careful to think about and test your pivot options, as some are easier or harder than others, and some don't work very well.

Educational calculation tool rather than "question".

This allows the student to input a linear system in augmented matrix form (max rows 5, but any number of variables). Then the student can decide to swap some rows, or multiply some rows, or add multiples of one row to other rows. The student only has to input what operation should be performed, and this is automatically applied to the system. This question has no marks and no feedback as it's just meant as a "calculator".

It has some rounding to 13 decimal places, as otherwise some fraction calculations become incorrectly displayed as a very small number instead of 0.

It would be possible to extend to more than 5 rows, one just has to put in a lot more variables and so on. I just had to choose some place to stop.

Apply the quadratic formula to find the roots of a given equation. The quadratic formula is given in the steps if the student requires it.

A bag contains balls of three different colours. You're told how many there are of each, and asked the probability of picking a ball of a particular colour.

Gives a plot of a velocity-time graph using JSXgraph, and a description of the motion shown in the graph. The student is asked to calculate the acceleration at different stages of the motion, and the displacement at the end of the motion.

Find the determinant of a $4 \times 4$ matrix.

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Multiplication of matrices.

Multiplication of matrices.

Multiplication of matrices.

Addition and subtraction of matrices; multiplication by scalar.

Quiz to assess matrix addition, subtraction, multiplication and multiplication by scalar.

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Find the determinant of a $3 \times 3$ matrix.

Matrix multiplication. Has automatically generated "unresolved" matrix product to write in the solution, which is the interesting part of this implementation.

Finding a matrix from a formula for each entry, which involves the row and column numbers of that entry. Randomized size of the matrices and formula.

The interesting part about the implementation is the way the output is generated for "Advice".

Educational calculation tool rather than "question".

This allows the student to input a square matrix (max rows 5). Then the student can decide to swap some rows, or multiply some rows, or add multiples of one row to other rows. The student only has to input what operation should be performed, and this is automatically applied to the matrix and the identity matrix (or what it has got to). This question has no marks and no feedback as it's just meant as a "calculator". It has some checks in so students know when they are not entering a square matrix or a valid row number etc.

It has some rounding to 13 decimal places, as otherwise some fraction calculations become incorrectly displayed as a very small number instead of 0.

It would be possible to extend to more than 5 rows, one just has to put in a lot more variables and so on. I just had to choose some place to stop.

Student decides on four different examples whether two subspaces form a direct sum and whether the sum is the whole vectorspace.

No randomisation, just the four examples. The question is set in explore mode, so that after deciding, students are asked to give reasons for their choices.

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Students are given an exponential equation and asked to evaluate it at two points.

The constants in the exponential are randomised.