AMATH 350 Assignment 5 Winter 2017

The assignment is due Monday, February 27, at the beginning of the lecture.

Late submissions will not be accepted.

1. Find the general solutions of the following DEs and IVP

(a) y 4y + 4y = e2x , y(0) = 1, y (0) = 0 [Optional]

(b) y 2y = e2x + 3
(c) y + 4y + 3y = 15e2x + ex [Optional]
(d) y + 4y + 3y = x sin(2x)

2. Give the form of the particular solution which you would use in the Method of Undetermined
Coecients for the DE. (Do not try to solve for the coecients).
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(D3 + 2D2 + 2D)[y] = 1 + x + (4 x)ex xex sin(x)
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3. An Investment Model. Consider the model in which there are two industries, one producing
capital goods and the other producing consumer goods.
Let q and p represent the price of the capital goods and consumer goods, respectively. Assume
that p is a constant parameter.
Furthermore, assume that q = q(t) (t = time) follows the dynamic

dq
= ( + )q p(0 1 K) (1)
dt
where , , 0 , 1 are some parameters and K is the capital stock that follows the dynamic
dK
= q K (2)
dt p
for some constant .

(a) Show that the two 1st-order DEs in (1) and (2) can be merged into one 2nd-order DE

d2 K dK
K = 0 (3)
dt2 dt
dq
where = 2 + + 1 . [Hint: Start with dierentiating (2) with respect to t, where
dt
is obtained from (1) and q is obtained from (2).]
(b) Find the equilibrium capital stock K .
(c) Under what conditions on and will K exhibit an oscillatory behavior? Then, nd the
general (oscillatory) solution of the non-homogeneous DE (3).
(d) Under what (further) condition(s) on will K, found in (c), approach K after long time?
(e) Use (c) and (d) to sketch the solution K(t).

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4. Use the Reduction of Order Method to nd the general solutions of the following DEs

(a) x2 y + 2xy 6y = 0, y1 = x2
(b) 4x2 y + y = 0, y1 = x1/2 ln x
(c) y y = ex , yp (x) = u(x)ex
[Hint to part (c): You should solve the homogeneous DE to obtain y1 (x) = ex and y2 (x) =
ex . Then, use one of them, say, y2 (x) = ex to nd the particular solution yp (x) as indicated.]

5. Use the Variation of Parameters Method to nd the particular solutions for the following DEs.
Then, write the general solutions

(a) y 2y + 2y = ex tan x
2ex
(b) y y = x
e + ex