Lecture 3 Separations of Variables With Solutions
Lecture 3 Separations of Variables With Solutions
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• Familiarize themselves with most basic way of solving for the general solution of a DE, the
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separation of variables
Introduction
We begin our study of the methods for solving first-order differential equations by studying an
equation of the form
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M dx + N dy = 0
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Where M and N may be functions of both x and y. Some equations of this type are so simple that
they can be put in the form
A(x) dx + B(y) dy = 0
That is, the variables can be separated. Then the solution can be written at once .
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Examples:
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1. Solve the equation
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Where x = 0 and y= -2
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Any Questions?
Bird, John. (2010). Higher Engineering Mathematics. Sixth Edition. Newnes Publications
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Rainville, Earl D., and Bedient, Phillip E. (1981). Elementary Differential Equations. Sixth Edition.
New York, USA: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
Boyce, William E., and DiPrima, Richard C. (2001). Elementary Differential Equations and
Boundary Value Problems. Seventh Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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