Sunday, December 25, 2011

Write the solution of the initial value problem and use it to find the population when ? When does...

This is a separable differential equation. This means we can completely separate dependent and independent variables into two expressions. General form if such equation is



and the solution is obtained by solving the following integrals



Let us now return to the problem at hand.



Now we need to put everything containing  on the left and everything containing  to the right side.



Let us first simplify the expression on the left.




We shall write the term on the left using partial fractions to make integration easier.



 





We can now integrate the equation.





In the line above we have written the constant term as  in stead of just  This is often used to make the expression easier to manipulate.



Use formulae for logarithm of product and quotient:





Take antilogarithm.






We can now calculate  by using the initial value.




Since  we have






The solution to the initial value problem is


  


We can now calculate population when



Population is approximately  at time 



To find when the population reaches 1200, we need to solve the following equation



Multiply by the denominator.




 


Take logarithm.



 


The population will reach 1200 at time  

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