GARDEN CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, KUMASI.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES

Economics and Statistics
Second Year First Semester

MTH 242: ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

December, 2013 TWO AND HALF HOURS

Answer any six of the seven questions below by providing the solutions to each question on
the Answer Booklet. All questions carry equal marks.

1. a. Define the following:

i. An ordinary differential equation.
ii. A solution to a differential equation.

d2y
b. Show that
y  c1 cos x  c2 sin x is a solution to the differential equation dx 2  y  0

c. Define the following:

i. An order of a differential equation.

ii. A degree of a differential equation.

1
3
  dy 2  4 2d y
2

1      k  2 
 dx    dx 
2. a. For the differential equation 
i. Find the degree.
ii. Find the order.

b. When is a first order differential equation said to be separable?

c. Solve the following:

dy
 y  2  x
i. dx

dy
 xy  x  1
ii. dx

f  x, y 
3. a. When is a function said to be homogeneous?
 b. show that the following functions are homogeneous:
f  x, y   2 x 2  3xy  4 y 2
i.
2x  y
f  x, y   2
ii. x y

c. Solve the following:

i.
x 2
 y 2  dx  2 xydy  0

ii.
 3x  y  dx  xdy  0; y  1  0

M  x, y  dx  N  x, y  dy  0
4. a. When is a said to be exact?
b. Show that the differential equations below are exact.

i.
 1  y sin x  dx  cos xdy  0
dy

2 xy  9 x 2  2 y  x 2  1 
dx
0
ii.
c. Solve the differential equations in 4b.

5. a. Find the Laplace Transform of the following functions.

y  t   t sin 3t
i.
y  t   t 2  3t  5
ii.
y  t   cos 2t  3sin 4 t
iii.

b. Find the inverse Laplace Transform of the following functions.

2
Y  s 
i. 3  5s
5s
Y  s 
ii. s 9
2

2
Y  s 
iii. s  16
2

6. a. When is a first order differential equation said to be linear?

b. Find the integrating factors for the following linear differential equations.
y ' y  2
i.
 dy y
  x3
dx x
ii.
dy 1
x  2 xy 
dx x
iii.

c. Solve the differential equations in 6b.

7. a. Find the Wronskian of the following:

i.
 sin x, cos x 

 e , xe 
x x

ii.
 x  1, x 2

iii.

b. Solve the following:

y '' 5 y ' 6 y  0, y  0   1 y '  0  2

i.
y '' 2 y ' 2 y  0
ii.
y '' 2 y ' y  e3 x
iii.
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