Final Review A Revised jan2014

1. Solve the following DE

i) 2 ( y  x 2 ) dx =  x dy ii) (2 x 3  xy 2  2 y  3 ) dx  ( x 2 y  2 x) dy = 0

2. a) Determine the orthogonal trajectory of family of curves for x ln y = ce x

b) Solve the initial value problem x '' (t )  2 x ' (t )  x (t ) = 3te t

x ( 0 )  4 , x ' ( 0)  2

c) Using the Wronskian method to determine whether f 1 ( x)  cos 2 x and f 2 ( x )  1  cos 2 x

are linearly dependent or linearly independent.

3. Solve the following Laplace Transform

 s2 
i) L 1  2  ii) L  (3t  2)  (t  2) 
 s ( s  2) 

 
iii) L  1 
5
 e 2s s iv) 
L 5  t 2 e  5t 
 ( s  3)
4


4. a) Solve using variation of parameters y ' '2 y '2 y  e x cot x

1
b) Solve using Cauchy-Euler x 2 y ' '5 xy '4 y 
(ln x ) 2

x'  3x  y  1
5. a) Solve using system of differential equation
y'  x  y  4e t

x '3 x  y '  1
b) Solve using Laplace Transform
x ' x  y ' y  et

subject to x(0)  0, y (0)  0

6. a) Determine the singular points of the differential equation and classify each of the
singular points as regular or irregular ( x 2  3x  2) 2 y ' '2( x  2) y '( x  1) y  0

b) Solve the following DE 2 xy 2 dy  4 x 2 ydx  3 y 2 dy

c) Find solutions of y ' x 3 y  0 in the form of power series in x

Final Review A (MAT242) 1