Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Find the particular solution that satisfies the initial condition

The given problem: is written in a form of first order "ordinary differential equation" or first order ODE.


 To evaluate this, we can apply variable separable differential equation  in which we express it in a form of  before using direct integration on each side.


To rearrange the problem, we move to the other to have an equation as: .


 Divide both sides by :




Applying direct integration:


Express as


Express in a form of 



To find the indefinite integral on both sides, we let:


then or   


then or


 The integral becomes: 




Apply the basic integration property: .



Apply the Law of Exponents: .


Then, the integral becomes:




Applying Power Rule of integration:






Note:


In radical form: 


Plug-in and , we get the general solution of differential equation:



Divide both sides by , we get:  .


Note: as arbitrary constant


For particular solution, we consider the initial condition  where   and .


Plug-in the values, we get:






.


 Then plug-in C =-1 on the general solution .






Rearrange into:





Taking the square root on both sides:


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