Bahir Dar University

College of Science
Department of Mathematics
Advanced Mathematics for Engineers (CENG 6311)
Assignment I (Individual Assignment)

INSTRUCTION: Give clear, neat and precise answers to the following problems.

1. Consider the Bessel equation of order one x 2 y +xy'+( {x} ^ {2} -1)y=. Then
a) Show that x = 0 is a regular singular point.
b) Show that the roots of the indicial equation are r 1=1 and r 2=−1.
c) Show that one solution for x >0 is
∞
x (−1)n x 2n
y 1 ( x )= ∑
2 n=0 ( n+1 ) !n ! 22 n
d) Show that the series for y 1 ( x ) converges for all x
e) Show that it is impossible to determine a second solution of the form
∞
1
y 1 ( x )= ∑ b x n , x>0.
x n=0 n
2. Solve the IVP using Laplace Transform
y +y'+ {5} over {4} y= left lbrace matrix {sint , # 0≤t<π ## 0 , # t≥π} right non .
3. Consider the electric circuit described by the system of differential equations in Problem

( )( )
−R1 −1
d I
()
dt V
= L
1
L
−1 V
I
, I ( 0 )=I 0 , V ( 0 )=V 0−−−−−−−−(1) .

C C R2

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a) Find the general solution of the problem (1) if R1=1 Ω , R2= Ω, L=2 H∧C= F .
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b) Show that I (t )→0 and V (t )→ 0 as t → ∞ regardless of the initial conditions V 0 and
I 0.
c) For the given system find a condition on R1, R2, C and L that must be satisfied if the
eigenvalues of the coefficient matrix are to be real and different.
 d) If the condition found in part c are satisfied, then show that the eigenvalues are
negative . Moreover, show that I (t)→0 and V (t )→ 0 as t → ∞ regardless of the
initial conditions V 0 and I 0 .
4. Find the approximated solution of the initial value problem y ' −2 t+ e−ty , y ( 0 ) =1 at
t=0.1 , t=0.2 using Improved Euler formula for h=0.01∧h=0.025 .

Submission date: 18/06/2014