TEST BANK FOR Advanced Engineering Mathematics [Volume 1] By Herbert Kreyszig and Erwin Kreyszig

Sec. 1.1 Basic Concepts. Modeling
To get a good start into this chapter and this section, quickly review your basic calculus. Take a look at
the front matter of the textbook and see a review of the main differentiation and integration formulas. Also,
Appendix 3, pp. A63–A66, has useful formulas for such functions as exponential function, logarithm, sine
and cosine, etc. The beauty of ordinary differential equations is that the subject is quite systematic and has
different methods for different types of ordinary differential equations, as you shall learn. Let us discuss
some Examples of Sec. 1.1, pp. 4–7.
Example 2, p. 5. Solution by Calculus. Solution Curves. To solve the first-order ordinary
differential equation (ODE)
y = cos x
means that we are looking for a function whose derivative is cos x. Your first answer might be that the
desired function is sin x, because (sin x) = cos x. But your answer would be incomplete because also
(sin x+2) =cos x, since the derivative of 2 and of any constant is 0. Hence the complete answer is
y= cos x+c, where c is an arbitrary constant. As you vary the constants you get an infinite family
of solutions. Some of these solutions are shown in Fig. 3. The lesson here is that you should never
forget your constants!
Example 4, pp. 6–7. Initial Value Problem. In an initial value problem (IVP) for a first-order ODE
we are given an ODE, here y =3y, and an initial value condition y(0)=5.7. For such a problem, the
first step is to solve the ODE. Here we obtain y(x)=ce3x as shown in Example 3, p. 5. Since we also
have an initial condition, we must substitute that condition into our solution and get y(0)=ce3·0 =
ce0 =c · 1= c=5.7. Hence the complete solution is y(x)=5.7e3x. The lesson here is that for an
initial value problem you get a unique solution, also known as a particular solution.
2 Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) Part A
Modeling means that you interpret a physical problem, set up an appropriate mathematical model,
and then try to solve the mathematical formula. Finally, you have to interpret your answer.
Examples 3 (exponential growth, exponential decay) and 5 (radioactivity) are examples of modeling
problems. Take a close look at Example 5, p. 7, because it outlines all the steps of modeling.
Problem Set 1.1. Page 8
3. Calculus. From Example 3, replacing the independent variable t by x we know that y =0.2y has a
solution y=0.2ce0.2x. Thus by analogy, y =y has a solution
1 · ce1·x = cex,
where c is an arbitrary constant.
Another approach (to be discussed in details in Sec. 1.3) is to write the ODE as
dy
dx
= y,
and then by algebra obtain
dy = y dx, so that
1
y
dy = dx.
Integrate both sides, and then apply exponential functions on both sides to obtain the same
solution as above

1
y
dy =

dx, ln|y| = x + c, eln |y| = ex+c, y = ex · ec = c∗ex,
(where c∗ = ec is a constant).
The technique used is called separation of variables because we separated the variables, so that y
appeared on one side of the equation and x on the other side before we integrated.
7. Solve by integration. Integrating y =cosh 5.13x we obtain (chain rule!) y=

cosh 5.13x dx
= 1
5.13 (sinh 5.13x)+c. Check: Differentiate your answer:

1
5.13 (sinh 5.13x) + c

= 1
5.13 (cosh 5.13x) · 5.13 = cosh 5.13x, which is correct.
11. Initial value problem (IVP). (a) Differentiation of y=(x+c)ex by product rule and definition of
y gives
y = ex + (x + c)ex = ex + y.
But this looks precisely like the given ODE y =ex +y. Hence we have shown that indeed
y=(x + c)ex is a solution of the given ODE. (b) Substitute the initial value condition into
the solution to give y(0)=(0+c)e0 =c · 1= 12
. Hence c= 12
so that the answer to the IVP is
y = (x + 12
)ex.
(c) The graph intersects the x-axis at x=0.5 and shoots exponentially upward.
Chap. 1 First-Order ODEs 3
19. Modeling: Free Fall. y =g =const is the model of the problem, an ODE of second order.
Integrate on both sides of the ODE with respect to t and obtain the velocity v=y =gt +c1
(c1 arbitrary). Integrate once more to obtain the distance fallen y= 12
gt2 +c1t +c2 (c2 arbitrary).
To do these steps, we used calculus. From the last equation we obtain y= 12
gt2 by imposing the
initial conditions y(0)=0 and y(0)=0, arising from the stone starting at rest at our choice of origin,
that is the initial position is y=0 with initial velocity 0. From this we have y(0)=c2 =0 and v(0)=
y(0) = c1 = 0.
Sec. 1.2 Geometric Meaning of y =f (x, y). Direction Fields, Euler’s Method
Problem Set 1.2. Page 11
1. Direction field, verification of solution. You may verify by differentiation that the general
solution is y=tan(x+c) and the particular solution satisfying y(14
π)=1 is y=tan x. Indeed, for the
particular solution you obtain
y = 1
cos2x
= sin2x + cos2x
cos2x
= 1 + tan2x = 1 + y2
and for the general solution the corresponding formula with x replaced by x+c.
1
–1
–2
2
–1 –0.5 0 0.5 1
y
x
y(x)
Sec. 1.2 Prob. 1. Direction Field
15. Initial value problem. Parachutist. In this section the usual notation is (1), that is, y =f (x, y),
and the direction field lies in the xy-plane. In Prob. 15 the ODE is v =f (t, v)=g −bv2/m, where v
suggests velocity. Hence the direction field lies in the tv-plane.With m=1 and b=1 the ODE
becomes v = g −v2. To find the limiting velocity we find the velocity for which the acceleration
equals zero. This occurs when g −v2 = 9.80−v2 =0 or v=3.13 (approximately). For v<3.13
you have v
>0 (increasing curves) and for v>3.13 you have v
<0 (decreasing curves). Note that
the isoclines are the horizontal parallel straight lines g −v2 =const, thus v=const.