THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
MATH1013 University Mathematics II
Tutorial 10
In all ODE or IVP questions in this tutorial, you may leave your answers in whatever forms.
However, sometimes you may be instructed to find the explicit solutions (expressing y as a function
in x). Therefore, it is a good practice for you to look for explicit solutions whenever possible.
1. Solve each of the following ODEs or IVPs.
(a) y ′ + (x − 2)y 2 = (sin x)y 2
(b) x3 y ′ + xy + 2 = 0 and y(1) = 0
2. (a) Let P (x, y) = ax + by + r and Q(x, y) = cx + dy + s where a, b, c, d, r, s are constants such
that ad − bc ≠ 0. Find two constants α and β (depending on a, b, c, d, r, s) such that
P (x, y) = a(x − α) + b(y − β) and Q(x, y) = c(x − α) + d(y − β).
(b) Considering a substitution of the form X = x − α and Y = y − β, solve the ODE
(x − y + 3)y ′ = x + y − 1.
x
3. (Bernoulli differential equation) Using the substitution u = y 3 , solve the ODE y ′ + 2y = .
y2
4. (a) Solve the IVP y ′′ − 5y ′ + 4y = 0, y(0) = 5 and y ′ (0) = 14.
(b) For the solution y in part (a), compute lim y(x) and lim y(x).
x→−∞ x→∞
5. Solve the ODE y ′′ − 9y ′ + 20y = −442 sin x.
Additional problems:
6. (Separable ODE) Solve each of the following ODEs or IVPs.
(a) y ′ = 1 − y 2
3x2 + 4x − 4
(b) y ′ =
2y − 4
y2
(c) y ′ = and y(0) = 1
1 + x2
1
7. (Homogeneous ODE) Solve each of the following ODEs or IVPs.
y−x
(a) y ′ =
x − 4y
y(x − y)
(b) y ′ =
x2
(c) x y + 2xy 2 = 3y 3 and y(1) = 2
3 ′
8. (Linear ODE) Solve each of the following ODEs or IVPs.
(a) 2y ′ − y = 4 sin 3x and y(0) = 1
(b) y ′ sin x + 2y cos x = 1
y
(c) y ′ + = x2 + x
x+1
9. (2nd-order ODE) Solve each of the following ODEs or IVPs.
(a) y ′′ − 6y ′ + 9y = 0, y(0) = 4 and y ′ (0) = −3
(b) y ′′ − 2y ′ + 5y = 0, y(0) = 1 and y ′ (0) = −3
(c) y ′′ = y ′ + 6y
10. Solve each of the following ODEs or IVPs.
(a) (x + y)y ′ = 4x − 3y
(b) (cos y)y ′ = 3x2 and y(1) = π
1 sin x
(c) y ′′ + y ′ = cos x +
x x