Lecture 3
Lecture 3
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
LECTURE 3
Homogeneous Equations
Consider
Homogeneous Equation
Define:
Example
Homogeneous Equation
Define:
Example
Homogeneous Equation
Define:
Example
Homogeneous
Equation
Define:
Example
Homogeneous
Equation
Define:
This solution is valid for:
Check these points specifically:
1)
2)
3)
Substitute:
Check the case: Y=-X
is a solution
Bernoulli Equation
• Sometimes it is possible to solve a nonlinear equation by
making a change of the dependent variable that converts it
into a linear equation.
• The most important such equation has the form
where and
• is a solution, so:
• It follows that:
or
which is a Bernoulli equation.
The substitution needed to solve this Bernoulli equation is:
This yields:
Linear Non-linear
There is a general solution formula There is no general solution formula.
and it gives the answers to these It is more difficult to answer these
questions questions
For linear differential equations
where
For nonlinear differential equations
Note that this theorem does not necessarily indicate the interval of existence.
Theorem 2.4.1 and Theorem 2.4.2 show that the graphs of two solutions
cannot intersect each other.
Example Use Theorem 2.4.1 to find an interval in which the initial
value problem
y becomes unbounded as