Worksheet 10

In-class Tutorial Exercises:

Week 10: Task 2 (ii) (see below)

Task One
To supplement the lecture material, read and work through HELM 22.2 Applications of
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, concentrating on Systems of Differential Equations.

Task Two
In the following questions, A is a given square matrix and x0 is a given vector.
Consider the following initial value problem:

dx
(t )= A x (t ) x(0)=x0 .
dt and

For each of the pairs ( A ,x 0 ) , find the solution of the initial value problem:

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(i)
A= ( 4 −2 ) ;
x 0= ( )
−3 ;

(ii)
A= (−22 −56 ) ;
x 0= (01 ) ;
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A= 1 6
( ) x 0=
0
()
(iii) 0 −3 ; 0 ;

(iv)
A= (1−αα β
1− β ) ;
x 0= (−11 )
(here, 0<α <1 and 0<β <1 );

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(v)
( )
A= 3 2 0
1 0 2 ;
()
x 0= 7
2 ;
 0 3 0 0

(vi)
( )
A= 6 0 9
0 −1 0 ; ()
x 0= 3
1 .