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    Exam 1 Topics:

    ˆ Finding the solution of differential equations; Integrals as General and Particular Solutions,
    Separable equations, and Linear first order equations.

    ˆ Equilibrium solutions and stability.

    ˆ Application problems will be chosen among natural growth/decay, cooling/heating, popu-


    lation models, acceleration-velocity models.

    Exam 1 Review Problems:

    1. Find ALL solutions of each of the following problems. In each case, if possible, give explicit
    solutions.
    dy
    (a) y 2 = (y 3 + 1) cos t
    dt
    dy 3 ex
    (b) + y = 3 , y(1) = 1.
    dx x x
    dy x
    (c) =√ , y(0) = 1.
    dx 2
    x +1
    dy
    (d) ex = −x(y 2 + 1)
    dx
    (e) (1 + t2 )y ′ = (1 + t2 )−2 − 4ty
    dy
    (f) = 2xy 2 + 3x2 y 2 , y(1) = −1
    dx
    2. The corpse of a victim was found at midnight with a body temperature of 30◦ C in a room
    with a constant ambient temperature of 25◦ C. Six minutes later, the temperature of the
    body had fallen to 29◦ C. If a normal body temperature is 37◦ C, when did the victim die?
    dT
    Assume that Newton’s law of cooling holds, i.e., = k(A − T ), where k > 0 and A is the
    dt
    temperature of the surrounding medium.

    3. In a certain culture of bacteria, the number of bacteria increased tenfold in 5 hours. How
    long did it take the population to double? Assume that the population function P obeys
    the following differential equation
    dP
    = kP
    dt
    4. The time rate of change of a fish population in a lake is proportional to the square of P .
    The lake contained 12 fish in 2012 and the number of fish doubled in 2022. When will there
    be 48 fish in the lake? What happens to the fish population as it gets closer to 2032?
    dx
    5. Let = x2 (4 − x). Find the equilibrium solutions, show the phase diagram, and state
    dt
    whether each of the equilibrium solutions is stable or not. Sketch a representative collection
    of solution curves.
    6. Consider the initial value problem
    dx
    = −x2 + 2x − 1, x(0) = x0 > 1
    dt
    Solve this equation and determine how the solution behaves as t → ∞. Find the critical
    point of this differential equation and determine if it is stable, unstable or neither (also
    called semi-stable).

    7. A baseball is thrown straight downward with an initial speed of 48 ft/s from the top of a
    building 640 ft high. How long does it take to reach the ground, and with what speed does
    the baseball strike the ground? Assume that there is no air resistance. (The gravitational
    acceleration is 32 ft/s2 .)

    8. A bolt is shot straight upward with an initial speed of 49 m/s from the top of a building
    10 m high. How long does it take to reach the ground, and with what speed does it strike
    the ground? Assume linear air resistance with drag coefficient ρ = 0.04 (The gravitational
    acceleration is 9.8 m/s2 .)

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