Alright, thanks for clarifying that. I was just concerned that the question asked "show", not "prove"... And is this alright as a method?
EDIT: nvm haha, just read your above post
Is this correct for part (b)?
IG, just regarding your approach, I thought of using induction, but if the question asks to "Show" and not "Prove" so can we still use induction (or is that a HSC thing only)?
Yeah thanks for clarifying that. By doing waay too many exact ODEs (treating y as constant) I completely forgot about that fact.
Any thoughts on the other question though?
Yeah it's a weird question...I tried both the substitutions suggested but failed to get to a solution.
Did you have a look at this one? I added it later on...
I've got a couple of ODEs too.
1)Use the substitution to solve:
xyy''=yy'+x(y')^2;u=y'/y \text{ or }u=\ln y
\\\text{2) Suppose that }\alpha(x)\text{ is a solution to the equation }\\ \frac{\mathrm{d^2} u}{\mathrm{d} x^2} +b(x) \frac{\mathrm{d} u}{\mathrm{d} x} +c(x)u=0\\\text{(a) Use the...
First year lol (MATH1251 at UNSW)
Thanks for that. Yeah, it's probably just easier to not use the substitution and just solve it like a second order ODE.
Thanks and sorry for the late reply.
Could someone please check my working for this one:
In the answers provided, they've got \frac{2x^2}{3} instead of \frac{2x^2}{5}
Got another ODE one...
$\noindent A savings account is opened with a deposit of $A$ dollars. At any time $t$ years thereafter, money is being continuously deposited into the account at a rate of $(C+Dt)$ dollars per year. If interest is being paid into the account at a nominal rate of $100R\%$...
Thanks
$\noindent A certain community is composed of $m$ families, $n_i$ of which have $i$ children, $ \sum_{n=i}^{r}n_i=m$. If one of the families is randomly chosen, let $X$ denote the number of children in that family. If one of the $ \sum_{n=i}^{r}in_i$ children is randomly chosen, let $Y$...
Right, thanks. I know it's a bit off-topic, but do you mind also having a look at my other thread I just created. I think it will be mostly about first year uni probability...
Yeah just realised I did essentially that, I used the substitution provided, rearranged it and somehow forced it into the ODE provided (and I know I wasn't supposed to do this)...But since there are two variables in the substitution u=y-x, do we need to use partial differentiation?