Academic Week 3: (Oct 4 – Oct 8)

MATHA43 Course Outcome 1

• Definition of Differential Equation
• Elimination of Arbitrary Constants
• Families of Curves
• Solutions of First-Order Ordinary Differential Equation:
• Separable Differential Equations

MATHA43 Course Outcome 2

• Homogeneous Differential Equations
• Linear Differential Equations
• Exact Differential Equations

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 Families of Curves

An equation involving a parameter, as well as one or both of the

coordinates of a point in a plane, may represent a family of curves,
one curve corresponding to each value of the parameter. For instance,
the equation

2 2
𝑥−𝑐 + 𝑦−𝑐 = 2𝑐 2

or

𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 − 2𝑐 𝑥 + 𝑦 = 0

may be interpreted as the equation of a family of circles, each having

its center on the line 𝑦 = 𝑥 and each passing through the origin.

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 In each exercise, obtain the differential equation of 2. Straight lines with algebraic sum of the intercepts fixed
the family of plane curves described. as k.

1. Straight lines through the origin.

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 3. Circles with center on the x-axis. 4. All circles.

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 5. Parabolas with vertex on the x-axis, with axis 6. Parabolas with axis parallel to the x-axis and with
parallel to the y-axis, and with distance from focus to distance from vertex to focus fixed as 𝑎.
vertex fixed as 𝑎.

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