Ordinary Differential Equation
Ordinary Differential Equation
Ordinary Differential Equation
1.D Reduce the following second order differential equation to first order differential equation
and hence solve.
(i) xy 00 + y 0 = y 02
(iii) yy 00 + y 02 + 1 = 0 (iii) y 00 2y 0 coth x = 0
2.T Find the curve y = y(x) passing through origin for which y 00 = y 0 and the line y = x is
tangent at the origin.
3.D Find the differential equation satisfied by each of the following two-parameter families
of plane curves:
(i) y = cos(ax + b) (ii) y = ax + b/x (iii) y = aex + bxex
4.D(a) Find the values of m such that y = emx is a solution of
(i) y 00 + 3y 0 + 2y = 0 (ii) y 00 4y 0 + 4y = 0 (iii) y 000 2y 00 y 0 + 2y = 0
(b) Find the values of m such that y = xm (x > 0) is a solution of
(i) x2 y 00 4xy 0 + 4y = 0 (ii) x2 y 00 3xy 0 5y = 0
5.T If p(x), q(x), r(x) are continuous functions on an interval I, then show that the set of
solutions of the following linear homogeneous equation is a real vector space:
y 00 + p(x)y 0 + q(x)y = 0,
x I.
(*)
Also show that the set of solutions of the linear non-homogeneous equation
y 00 +p(x)y 0 +q(x)y = r(x),
xI
(#)
is not a real vector space. Further, suppose y1 (x), y2 (x) are any two solutions of (#).
Obtain conditions on the constants a and b so that ay1 + by2 is also its solution.
6.D Are the following functions linearly dependent on the given intervals?
(i)
(iii)
(ii)
(iv)
ln x, ln x3 (0, )
x3 , x2 |x| [1, 1]
7.T(a) Show that a solution to (*) with x-axis as tangent at any point in I must be identically
zero on I.
(b) Let y1 (x), y2 (x) be two solutions of (*) with a common zero at any point in I. Show
that y1 , y2 are linearly dependent on I.
(c) Show that y = x and y = sin x are not a pair solutions of equation (*), where p(x), q(x)
are continuous functions on I = (, ).
8.D(a) Let y1 (x), y2 (x) be two twice continuously differentiable functions on an interval I. Suppose that the Wronskian W (y1 , y2 ) does not vanish anywhere in I. Show that there
exists unique p(x), q(x) on I such that (*) has y1 , y2 as fundamental solutions.
(b) Construct equations of the form (*) from the following pairs of solutions:
(i) ex , xex (ii) ex sin 2x, ex cos 2x
9.T Let y1 (x), y2 (x) are two linearly independent solutions of (*). Show that
(i) between consecutive zeros of y1 , there exists a unique zero of y2 ;
(ii) (x) = y1 (x) + y2 (x) and (x) = y1 (x) + y2 (x) are two linearly independent
solutions of (*) iff 6= .