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Example: an equation with the function and its
derivative
Solving
EXAMPLE : RABBITS !
• more rabbits we have the more baby rabbits we get. Then those rabbits will grow
The
up and have babies too. The population will grow faster and faster.
The important parts of this are :
• The population of N at any time t
• The growth rate r
• The populations rate of change N
The populations rate of change N is then 10001.01 = 10 new rabbits per week.
But that is only true at a specific time, and doesn’t include that the population is
currently increasing.
•Remember:
the bigger the population the more rabbits we get!
So it is better to say the rate of change (at any instant) is the growth
rate times the population at that instant:
And that is a Differential Equation, because it has a function N(t) and its
derivative.
•We
wrote and to mean the same thing. We used as an operator.
Differentials are infinitely small quantities. We usually write differentials
as and so on where:
EXAMPLE 1:
Find the differential of the function .
Here , so =15 1.
So the differential is given by:
(15)
To find the differential we just need to find the derivative and write it
with on the right.
•EXAMPLE
2:
EXAMPLE 3:
Solution:
Differentiating both sides, we get, where is the derivative of .
•EXAMPLE
4:
3
𝑓 ( 𝑥 )= 𝑥
Solution:
We know,
Therefore,