GARDEN CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, KUMASI.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES

End of First Semester Examination, 2015

BSc. Economics and Statistics

First Year
MTH 242: ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

December, 2015 Three Hours

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Instructions: Answer all questions below by providing the solutions to each question in the
Answer Booklet. All questions carry equal marks.

1
 1
3
  dy 2  4 2d y
2
1 
     k  2

  dx    dx 
1. a. For the differential equation
i. Find the degree. 2
ii. Find the order. 3

b. When is a first order differential equation said to be separable? 5

c. Solve the following:

dy
 y  2  x
i. dx 5

dy
 xy  x  1
ii. dx 5

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

c. Solve the following:

i.
x 2
 y 2  dx  2 xydy  0
5

ii.
 3x  y  dx  xdy  0; y  1  0
6

M  x, y  dx  N  x, y  dy  0
3. a. When is a said to be exact? 3
b. Show that the differential equations below are exact.

i.
 1  y sin x  dx  cos xdy  0 3
dy

2 xy  9 x 2  2 y  x 2  1 
dx
0
ii. 4

c. Solve the differential equations in 4b. 10

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

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

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

2
Y  s 
i. 3  5s 3
5s
Y  s 
ii. s 92
3
2
Y  s 
iii. s  16
2
4

5. a. When is a first order differential equation said to be linear? 2

b. Find the integrating factors for the following linear differential equations.
y ' y  2 3
i.
dy y
  x3
dx x 3
ii.
dy 1
x  2 xy 
dx x 3
iii.

c. Solve the differential equations in 6b. 9

7. a. Find the Wronskian of the following:

i.
 sin x, cos x  3

 e , xe 
x x
3
ii.
 x  1, x  2
4
iii.

b. Solve the following:

3
 y '' 5 y ' 6 y  0, y  0   1 y '  0  2
i. 3
y '' 2 y ' 2 y  0 3
ii.
y '' 2 y ' y  e3 x 4
iii.

E. Mensah-Eduful