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Qualifying Exam APPLIED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Fall 2006 Do all 8 problems. All problems are weighted equally. 1. Consider the second order ODE a"(t) + 2%(t) — 4z(8) = 0. @ Find the conserved quantity for (1) Rewrite (1) as a first order system Find and classify the equilibrium points: ‘ Sketch the phase portrait of the system 2. Consider the equation Un = Puss (2) for at 0. Compare the following two boundary conditions: u(2,0,t) = 0 ©) and uy (2,0, t) = 0. © Denote the solution of (3), (4) and (5) as u? and the solution of (3), (4) and (6) as uw. Show that u? 0. 1 4, Consider the Laplace equation Pu Fu bat * Oy y>0, zéER, (7) together with the boundary condition FeCe0) — uls,0) = F(a, ® where f(x) € C@°(R) (i., f is smooth with compact support). Find a representation for a bounded solution u(x, y) of (7), (8), and show that ‘u(z,y) > 0 as y > 00, uniformly in z € R. 5. Let a ER be a positive constant and f(t) a non-negative continuous function. Assume that y(t) is a continuous function such that ‘ oxy) sa+ [ seeds for eo @) Show that a yu) s Toakkieas’ (19) for all t > 0 for which the denominator in the right hand side of (10) is positive. 6. Let y € C'(C) be a function with compact support. When ¢ € C, let us write ¢ = €+in, with €, 7 € R, and introduce the Cauchy-Riemann operate, 81/9 ,,8 8 2\GE "Gn, Let z € C. Show that 1 a = ete = -2 ff AO - 27" aga () 7. Let u solve the heat equation in a two-dimensional channel ; i.e., uy = Au (12) uz,y,t=0) = les) (3) tuy(it,0,t=0) = wy(e,n,t= (4) for -co < 2 < oo and 0 00. .. Suppose that w is a smooth solution of the initial boundary value prob- lem Uy = tee teu (16) u(z,t=0) = uole) (17) u(0,t) = u(1,t)=0 (18) for 0

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