DISCLAIMER: The following practice exam is intended to give you a
very general idea about the kinds of questions that may appear on the
exam. It should not be regarded as a comprehensive study guide for
the exam. In particular, it is possible that topics not covered on this
practice exam will appear on the exam and that topics covered on this
practice exam will not appear on the exam. You are responsible for all
the topics covered in class.
- Suppose that a given tank has valves that allow fluid to flow in at
a rate proportional to the volume of fluid in the tank and out at a rate
proportional to the square of the volume of fluid in the tank.
- Set up a DE that models this situation (assume is the constant
of proportionality for the rate of flow into the tank and is the
constant of proportionality for the rate of flow out of the tank).
- Draw a slope field for the equation you found above and find the
equilibrium solution(s) if there are any. Describe (in plain English) what
happens to the volume of fluid in the tank as
. Be
as specific as you can.
- Assuming there are initially gallons of fluid in the tank,
solve your DE.
- Now suppose an extra valve is opened which allows fluid to enter the
tank at a constant rate of gallons per unit time. Set up a new DE to
model the situation, draw a slope field, and find the equilibrium
solution(s) if there are any.
- Solve the following differential equations. If no initial
conditions are specified, find the general solution.
-
-
,
-
-
, ,
- Find a recursion formula for
, .
- Compute the Taylor series for
about and
find its radius of convergence.
- Compute the Taylor series for
about
and find its radius of convergence.
- Compute the Taylor series for
about and
find its radius of convergence.
- Explain why the series
must converge.
- It turns out that the above series converges to and
thus
. Explain why this is not a very useful formula for estimating the
numerical value of .
- Suppose is a linear operator on the space of all differentiable
real-valued functions.
- We can define a linear operator . How? (HINT: how would
Taylor answer this question?)
- Let be the function given by and let denote
the differential operator. What is ?
Math 9 Fall 2000
2000-10-07