Internal
problem
ID
[14768] Book
:
INTRODUCTORY
DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS.
Martha
L.
Abell,
James
P.
Braselton.
Fourth
edition
2014.
ElScAe.
2014 Section
:
Chapter
1.
Introduction
to
Differential
Equations.
Review
exercises,
page
23 Problem
number
:
19 Date
solved
:
Friday, October 11, 2024 at 05:11:57 PM CAS
classification
:
[_quadrature]
We assume there exists a function \(\phi \left ( x,y\right ) =c\) where \(c\) is constant, that
satisfies the ode. Taking derivative of \(\phi \) w.r.t. \(x\) gives
But since \(\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial x\partial y}=\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial y\partial x}\) then for the above to be valid, we require that
If the above condition is satisfied,
then the original ode is called exact. We still need to determine \(\phi \left ( x,y\right ) \) but at least we know
now that we can do that since the condition \(\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial x\partial y}=\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial y\partial x}\) is satisfied. If this condition is not
satisfied then this method will not work and we have to now look for an integrating
factor to force this condition, which might or might not exist. The first step is
to write the ODE in standard form to check for exactness, which is
Since \(\frac {\partial M}{\partial y}= \frac {\partial N}{\partial x}\), then the ODE is exact The following equations are now set up to solve for the
function \(\phi \left (x,y\right )\)
Where \(f(y)\) is used for the constant of integration since \(\phi \) is a function
of both \(x\) and \(y\). Taking derivative of equation (3) w.r.t \(y\) gives
But since \(\phi \) itself is a constant function, then let \(\phi =c_2\) where \(c_2\) is new constant and
combining \(c_1\) and \(c_2\) constants into the constant \(c_1\) gives the solution as