AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT

Math 202 – Differential Equations

Midterm exam
Summer 2017

Name: ID:

The backs of the pages may be used as scratch paper.

Justify your answers clearly to ensure full credit
Time: 80 minutes

Circle your section number:

Section number 2 4

Time of class 8:45 11:15

Question Points Score

1 18

2 18

3 18

4 16

5 16

6 14

Total 100

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Answer each of the following problems in the space provided for each one.

1. (18 points) Let F(x, y, z) be the vector field F = 7xyzi + 5xyj + 4xk.
R
(a) Find the flow C1 F · Tds of F along the curve C1 parametrized as

r(t) = ti + t2 j + t3 k, 0 ≤ t ≤ 1.

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(b) Let C2 = C3 ∪ C4 , where C3 is the segment joining the points P = (0, 0,R0) and Q =
(0, 1, 1), and C4 is the segment between Q and R = (1, 1, 1). Compute C2 F · Tds

(c) Based on the previous points, is F conservative? Explain your answer.

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2. (18 points) Let F be the vector field F = (x + 1)ex cos(y)i − (xex sin(y) + 2y)j + 2zk.

(a) Use the component test to check that F is conservative.

Z (1,1,1)
(b) Find a potential function f for F, and compute the integral F · Tds.
(0,0,0)

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(c) Find a one-parameter family of implicit solutions for the differential equation

dy
(x sin(y) + 2ye−x ) = (x + 1) cos(y).
dx

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3. (18 points) Let S be the part of the cone z = x2 + y 2 contained between the planes
z = 0 and z = 1.

(a) Compute the outward flux (that is, in the direction pointing away from the z-axis)
of the vector field F = yi − xj + (z − 1)k across S.

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(b) Compute the flux of part (a) by using the Divergence Theorem (Note: S is not a
closed surface).

(c) Use Stokes theorem to compute the outward flux of G = curl F across S.

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4. (16 points) Solve the initial value problem

ey y 0 = xey + x + ey + 1, y(0) = 1.

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5. (16 points) Find a one-parameter family of solutions for the differential equation
1
x2 y 0 − y = x3 ex− x .

Specify an appropriate interval of definition for the solutions obtained.

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6. (14 points) Use an appropriate substitution to solve the differential equation

(x2 + xy)dy + (xy + y 2 )dx = 0.

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