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Modelling with differential equations

Growth, decay, cooling, mixing: writing the equation from the sentence.

Every model starts with a sentence of the form “the rate of change of y is proportional to …”. Growth at 5% a year is y′ = 0.05y; cooling is T′ = −k(T − T_room); a mixing tank balances what flows in against what flows out. Write the sentence as an equation, solve, then fit the constant to a known value.

Çözümlü örnek · y' = 0.05*y

Differential-Equations · Differential-Equations

Y' = 0.05*y

\frac{d}{d x} y{\left(x \right)} = 0.05 y{\left(x \right)}

Adım adım

  1. \frac{d}{d x} y{\left(x \right)} = 0.05 y{\left(x \right)}

    The differential equation.

  2. \text{order } 1

    Order 1: the highest derivative present.

  3. \text{Separable}

    Move everything in y to one side with dy and everything in x to the other, then integrate both sides.

  4. 1.0 r - 0.05 = 0

    Characteristic equation of the homogeneous part (substitute y = e^{rx}).

  5. r = 0.05

    Its roots.

  6. y{\left(x \right)} = C_{1} e^{0.05 x}

    General solution (C₁, C₂ … are arbitrary constants).

  7. \checkmark

    Verified: substituting the solution back into the equation gives 0.

Cevabı göster
y{\left(x \right)} = C_{1} e^{0.05 x}

Şimdi sen Bir problem seçin, ya da kendi probleminizi yazın ya da çizin. Her adım, bir resim, cevap sorulana kadar gizli.

Kendi çalışmalarınızı saklayın

Ücretsiz bir hesap her ders için notlar, bitirdiğiniz şeylerin kaydı, çözüldüğünüz problemlerin bir yerdeki kaydı ve bu sayfa hakkında soru sormak için bir öğretmen ekler. Matematik kendisi, giriş yapmış veya yapmamış herkese açıktır.

Kayıt Ol Giriş

Burada kullanılan sembolleri

Tüm tanım, resim ve her harfin anlamı için herhangi bir sembolü tıklayın.

Nasıl: Modelling with differential equations

  1. The differential equation.
  2. Order 1: the highest derivative present.
  3. Move everything in y to one side with dy and everything in x to the other, then integrate both sides.
  4. Characteristic equation of the homogeneous part (substitute y = e^{rx}).
  5. Its roots.
  6. General solution (C₁, C₂ … are arbitrary constants).
  7. Verified: substituting the solution back into the equation gives 0.

Sık sorulan sorular

What is a differential equation?

An equation whose unknown is a function, relating it to its own derivatives. "The rate of growth is proportional to the population" is y′ = ky, and solving it means finding y as a function of time.

Why does the solution have arbitrary constants?

Integrating loses information: many functions share the same derivative. An n-th order equation has n constants, fixed by n initial or boundary conditions.

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