MAS 201 Differential Equations and Applications

Final Exam

June 21, 2013

19:00 22:00

Spring 2013

MAS 201

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Instruction
No items other than pen, pencil, eraser and your id are allowed. You must leave all of your belongings
that are not allowed at the designated area in the front of the classroom.
Before you start, fill out the identification section on the title page and on the header of each page with
an inerasable pen.
Show your work for full credit and write the final answer to each problem in the box provided. You are
encouraged to write in English but some Korean is acceptable. You can use the back of each page as
scratch spaces but anything written there will not be graded.
The exam is for three hours. Ask permission by raising your hand if you have any question or need to
go to toilet. You are not allowed to go to toilet for the first 60 minutes and the last 30 minutes.
Any attempt to cheat or a failure to follow this instruction lead to serious disciplinary actions not limited
to failing the exam or the course.

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Problem

Score

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Score

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10

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12

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13 (a)

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13 (b)

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1. Without actually solving the equation

(1 2 sin2 x)y 00 + xy = 0
determine a lower bound for the radius of convergence of power series solutions about the point x = 0.

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2. Find all the regular singular points of the differential equation

x2(1 x)y 00 (1 + x)y 0 + 2xy = 0,
and determine the indicial equation for each regular singular point.

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3. Find the first three nonzero terms in each of two linearly independent power series solutions about x = 0
of the differential equation
y 00 + x(sin x)y = 0.

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4. Let y = xr

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cnxn be a series solution of the differential equation

n=0

x2y 00 + 3x2y 0 + (x 2)y = 0,

x > 0.

Determine the recurrence relation cn = f (n, r)cn1, n = 1, 2, . . . when y = xr

X
n=0

solution.

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cnxn is a series

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(#5 #8) Consider the linear system




0
2
X + F.
X0 =
1 3
 
0
.
5. Find the general solution of the linear system when F =
0

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0
6. Describe the behavior of the solution when F =
as t by plotting a few trajectories of the
0
system.

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7. Use the method of undetermined coefficients to find the general solution of the system when F =
.
1

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8. Use variation of parameters to find the general solution of the system when F =

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et
.
2et

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9. Find the general solution of the system

X0 =


1 3
X.
3 5

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10. Classify each critical point of the following plane autonomous system as a stable node, a stable spiral
point, an unstable spiral point, an unstable node, or a saddle point.
 0
x =y
y 0 = x + (1 y 2)y x3

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10

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11. Show that the critical point (0, 0) is a stable spiral point of the plane autonomous system
(
p
0
2 + y 2 )3
x = y x(
x
p
0
y = x y( x2 + y 2)3
(Use polar coordinates.)

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12. Assume f (x, y) is continuously differentiable and f (0, 0) 6= 0. Use the phase-plane method to show that
(0, 0) is a center of the system
 0
x = yf (x, y)
y 0 = xf (x, y)

13. Consider the differential equation




1
x00 +
(x0)3 x0 + x = 0,
3

6= 0.

(a) Change the equation to a system of first-order differential equation and show that (0, 0) is the only
critical point of first-order differential equations.

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(b) Determine the stability and type of the critical point (0, 0):
(i) when > 0;
(ii) when < 0.

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13