Try it on paper first. A hint, the key idea and the worked solution are here when you need them.
A guide curve in a design plot, drawn in scaled coordinates, has the slope . The curve passes through the origin, so when . The designer sees that the equation is not linear in . She turns it over and treats as the unknown function of . Then it becomes linear, and she writes the solution as . Find from the origin. Then find when and when , correct to four decimal places. The angle is in radians.
Write the equation as . The integrating factor is , and
If is the unknown, use in the same way.
Have you tried it?
Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Given. with at .
Plan. Turn the equation over, find the integrating factor in , integrate by substitution and by parts, then fix the constant.
Step 1. Turn it over. . Here , so the integrating factor is .
Step 2. Integrate. . Put , so . The integral is .
Step 3. Divide by the factor. . Here is the constant of the designer's form.
Step 4. The constant. At : , so . The curve is .
Step 5. Evaluate. At , , so . At , , so .
Answer: , with and .
Check. At the slope is , which is positive, as the curve rises to the right.
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