Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems 9th Edition

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Chapter 2 - First Order Differential Equations - 2.1 Linear Equations; Method of Integrating Factors - Problems - Page 40: 20

Answer

Q: $ty'+(t+1)y=t$, $y(ln2)=1$, $t>0$, solve the initial value problem Answer: $y=\frac{(t-1+2e^{-t})}{t}$

Work Step by Step

Because this is a differential equations course question, I have omitted most of the explanation of the calculus, if do not remember how to do the calculus then keep a formula sheet of common calculus operations handy. This is of the form $p(t)y'+g(t)y=h(t)$, the first thing we need to do is to find a $p(t)$ such that $d(p(t)y)=p(t)y'+g(t)y$. step 1, divide entire equation by t $y'+\frac{t+1}{t}y$=1 step 2, multiply entire equation by integrating factor $µ(t)$ $µ(t)y'+µ(t)\frac{t+1}{t}y=µ(t)$ step 3, in order to solve this equation, we must make sure that the following is true: $µ(t)y'+µ(t)\frac{t+1}{t}y=d(µ(t)y)$, thus, $µ(t)\frac{t+1}{t}=d(µ(t))$ we must do this to isolate $y$ step 4, solve for µ(t), use the fact that $d(ln(x))=\frac{x'}{x}$ $\frac{t+1}{t}=\frac{d(µ(t))}{µ(t)}$ $\int\frac{t+1}{t}dt=\int{(1+t^{-1})}dt=\int\frac{d(µ(t))}{µ(t)}dt$ $t+ln(t)+C=ln(µ(t))$, now raise everything as an exponent of $e$ $e^{t+ln(t)+C}=e^{ln(µ(t))}$, using exponent properties we get $e^{t}e^{ln(t)}e^{C}=µ(t)$, e^C is still an arbitrary constant called k (the name change is insignificant but my reason for doing so will become clear in the next step) $kte^{t}=µ(t)$ Step 5, $d(µ(t)y)=µ(t)$ therefore, $µ(t)y+C=\intµ(t)dt$ or $y=\frac{\intµ(t)dt+C}{µ(t)}$ which is $y=\frac{\int{kte^{t}}dt+C}{kte^{t}}$, and thus(note, C/k is still C because C is arbitrary) $y=\frac{\int{te^{t}}dt+C}{te^{t}}$, this is our explicit solution, but we must evaluate the integral before we can plug in the initial value $y=\frac{te^{t}-e^t+C}{te^{t}}$, this is our fully evaluated explicit solution. Step 6, $y(ln(2))=1$, so $1=\frac{(ln(2))e^{ln2}-e^{ln2}+C}{(ln(2))e^{ln2}}$ $1=\frac{2ln(2)-2+C}{2ln(2)}$, $1=1+\frac{-2+C}{2ln(2)}$ $0=\frac{-2+C}{2ln(2)}$ $0=-2+C$ $C=2$, therefore $y=\frac{te^{t}-e^t+2}{te^{t}}$ or $y=\frac{t-1+2e^{-t}}{t}$
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