seperable diffequ — Jemoka Knowledge Base

\begin{equation} \dv{y}{t} = a(t)f(y) \end{equation}

are a class of functions are called seperable. We can solve them using the division method division method the division method involves solving autonomous ODEs by dividing and treating it normally:

\begin{equation} y’ = 8y \end{equation}

\begin{equation} \frac{y’}{8} = y \end{equation}

we now write something fishy:

\begin{equation} \frac{\dd{y}}{y} = 8 \dd{t} \end{equation}

we now take the antiderivative of this:

\begin{equation} \int \frac{1}{y} \dd{y} = \int 8 \dd{t} \end{equation}

We will get that:

\begin{equation} \ln |y| = 8t + C \end{equation}

we finally get:

\begin{equation} |y| = e^{C} e^{8t} \end{equation}

getting rid of that absolute value:

\begin{align} y &= \pm e^{C} e^{8t} \\ &= K e^{8t} \end{align}

places where this breaks down sometimes, \frac{1}{f(y)} may not have a nice antiderivative sometimes, G(y), the antidepressant, may not be nicely invertible general solution to y’(t) = ry(t) generally, for r \in \mathbb{R}, the solution to y’(t) = ry(t) is at y(t)=y_0e^{rt}, where y_0 = y(0). for autonomous ODEs for which ry(t) = f(y), we have that:

\begin{equation} \dv{y}{x} = ry(x) \end{equation}

which means:

\begin{equation} \frac{1}{y(x)} \dd{y} = r\dd{x} \end{equation}

and so:

\begin{equation} \ln \qty| y(x) | = rx +C \end{equation}

and hence:

\begin{equation} y(x) = K e^{rx} \end{equation}

plugging in x=0, yields y(0) = Ke^{0} = K.