Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form A
1. is the solution of the differential equation . Find the solution that satisfies the
initial condition .
2. A function
satisfies the differential equation .
What are the constant solutions of the equation?
3. A sum of is invested at interest. If is the amount of the investment at time t for
the case of continuous compounding, write a differential equation and an initial condition satisfied
by .
4. Kirchhoff’s Law gives us the derivative equation .
If , use Euler’s method with step size 0.1 to estimate after 0.3 second.
5. Select a direction field for the differential equation from a set of direction fields
labeled I-IV.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form A
6. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves.
7. Solve the differential equation.
8. A certain small country has $20 billion in paper currency in circulation, and each day $70 million
comes into the country’s banks. The government decides to introduce new currency by having the
banks replace old bills with new ones whenever old currency comes into the banks. Let
denote the amount of new currency in circulation at time t with . Formulate and solve a
mathematical model in the form of an initial-value problem that represents the ”flow” of the new
currency into circulation (in billions per day).
9. Find the solution of the differential equation that satisfies the initial condition .
10. One model for the spread of an epidemic is that the rate of spread is jointly proportional to the
number of infected people and the number of uninfected people. In an isolated town of
inhabitants, people have a disease at the beginning of the week and have it at the end
of the week. How long does it take for of the population to be infected?
11. Let .
What are the equilibrium solutions?
12. Biologists stocked a lake with fish and estimated the carrying capacity (the maximal
population for the fish of that species in that lake) to be . The number of fish tripled in the
first year. Assuming that the size of the fish population satisfies the logistic equation, find an
expression for the size of the population after t years.
13. Suppose that a population grows according to a logistic model with carrying capacity and
per year. Write the logistic differential equation for these data.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form A
14. Let c be a positive number. A differential equation of the form
where k is a positive constant, is called a doomsday equation because the exponent in the
expression is larger than the exponent 1for natural growth. An especially prolific breed of
rabbits has the growth term . If such rabbits breed initially and the warren has rabbits
after months, then when is doomsday?
15. Solve the initial-value problem.
16. Solve the initial-value problem.
17. An object with mass m is dropped from rest and we assume that the air resistance is proportional to
the speed of the object. If is the distance dropped after t seconds, then the speed is
and the acceleration is . If g is the acceleration due to gravity, then the downward force on
the object is , where c is a positive constant, and Newton’s Second Law gives
.
Find the limiting velocity.
18. Solve the initial-value problem.
19. Solve the differential equation.
20. Find the solution of the initial-value problem and use it to find the population when .
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form A
Answer Key
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form B
1. Determine whether the differential equation is linear.
2. Solve the differential equation.
3. A phase trajectory is shown for populations of rabbits and foxes . Describe how each
population changes as time goes by.
Select the correct statement.
4. A population is modeled by the differential equation
.
For what values of P is the population decreasing?
5. A function
satisfies the differential equation .
What are the constant solutions of the equation?
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form B
6. Kirchhoff’s Law gives us the derivative equation .
If , use Euler’s method with step size 0.1 to estimate after 0.3 second.
7. Select a direction field for the differential equation from a set of direction fields
labeled I-IV.
8. Solve the differential equation.
9. A tank contains L of brine with kg of dissolved salt. Pure water enters the tank at a rate
of L/min. The solution is kept thoroughly mixed and drains from the tank at the same rate.
How much salt is in the tank after minutes?
10. Find the solution of the differential equation that satisfies the initial condition .
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form B
11. A certain small country has $20 billion in paper currency in circulation, and each day $70 million
comes into the country’s banks. The government decides to introduce new currency by having the
banks replace old bills with new ones whenever old currency comes into the banks. Let
denote the amount of new currency in circulation at time t with . Formulate and solve a
mathematical model in the form of an initial-value problem that represents the ”flow” of the new
currency into circulation (in billions per day).
12. Find the solution of the differential equation that satisfies the initial condition .
13. Let .
What are the equilibrium solutions?
14. Consider the differential equation
as a model for a fish population, where t is measured in weeks and c is a constant. For what values
of c does the fish population always die out?
15. Biologists stocked a lake with fish and estimated the carrying capacity (the maximal
population for the fish of that species in that lake) to be . The number of fish tripled in the
first year. Assuming that the size of the fish population satisfies the logistic equation, find an
expression for the size of the population after t years.
16. Determine whether the differential equation is linear.
17. Solve the differential equation.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form B
18. Find the solution of the initial-value problem and use it to find the population when .
19. Which equation does the function satisfy?
20. Solve the initial-value problem.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form B
Answer Key
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
Select the correct answer for each question.
____ 1. A population is modeled by the differential equation.
For what values of P is the population increasing?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 2. Newton’s Law of Cooling states that the rate of cooling of an object is proportional to the
temperature difference between the object and its surroundings. Suppose that a roast turkey is
taken from an oven when its temperature has reached and is placed on a table in a room
where the temperature is . If is the temperature of the turkey after t minutes, then
Newton’s Law of Cooling implies that
.
This could be solved as a separable differential equation. Another method is to make the change
of variable . If the temperature of the turkey is after half an hour, what is the
temperature after 35 min?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
____ 3. Solve the differential equation.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 4. Solve the differential equation.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
____ 5. A curve passes through the point and has the property that the slope of the curve at every
point P is times the y-coordinate P. What is the equation of the curve?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 6. Solve the differential equation.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
____ 7. Suppose that a population grows according to a logistic model with carrying capacity and
per year. Choose the logistic differential equation for these data.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 8. Let c be a positive number. A differential equation of the form
where k is a positive constant is called a doomsday equation because the exponent in the
expression is larger than the exponent 1 for natural growth. An especially prolific breed of
rabbits has the growth term . If such rabbits breed initially and the warren has rabbits
after months, then when is doomsday?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
____ 9. The population of the world was about 5.3 billion in 1990. Birth rates in the 1990s range from 35
to 40 million per year and death rates range from 15 to 20 million per year. Let’s assume that the
carrying capacity for world population is 100 billion. Use the logistic model to predict the world
population in the 2,450 year. Calculate your answer in billions to one decimal place. (Because the
initial population is small compared to the carrying capacity, you can take k to be an estimate of
the initial relative growth rate.)
a. 78.3 billion
b. 27.0 billion
c. 17.1 billion
d. 59.2 billion
e. 32.9 billion
____ 10. A common inhabitant of human intestines is the bacterium Escherichia coli. A cell of this
bacterium in a nutrient-broth medium divides into two cells every . The initial
population of a culture is cells. Find the number of cells after hours.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 11. Solve the differential equation.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
____ 12. Solve the differential equation.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 13. Solve the differential equation.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
____ 14. Let be the performance level of someone learning a skill as a function of the training time t.
The graph of P is called a learning curve. We propose the differential equation
as a reasonable model for learning, where r is a positive constant. Solve it as a linear differential
equation.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 15. We modeled populations of aphids and ladybugs with a Lotka-Volterra system. Suppose we
modify those equations as follows:
,
Find the equilibrium solution.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
____ 16. A phase trajectory is shown for populations of rabbits and foxes . Describe how each
population changes as time goes by.
Select the correct statement.
a. At the number of rabbits rebounds to 500.
b. At the number of foxes reaches a maximum of about 2400.
c. At the population of foxes reaches a minimum of about 30.
____ 17. For what values of k does the function satisfy the differential equation ?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
____ 18. For what nonzero values of k does the function satisfy the differential
equation for all values of A and B?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 19. Which of the following functions are the constant solutions of the equation
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 20. Which of the following functions is a solution of the differential equation?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form C
Answer Key
Stewart – Calculus ET 8e Chapter 9 Form D
Select the correct answer for each question.
____ 1. Which equation does the function satisfy?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 2. Newton’s Law of Cooling states that the rate of cooling of an object is proportional to the
temperature difference between the object and its surroundings. Suppose that a roast turkey is
taken from an oven when its temperature has reached and is placed on a table in a room
where the temperature is . If is the temperature of the turkey after t minutes, then
Newton’s Law of Cooling implies that
.
This could be solved as a separable differential equation. Another method is to make the change
of variable . If the temperature of the turkey is after half an hour, what is the
temperature after 35 min?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
____ 3. Use Euler’s method with step size 0.25 to estimate , where is the solution of the
initial-value problem. Round your answer to four decimal places.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.