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Core Pure (A level/Year 2) Unit Test 6: Differential equations

1 Find the particular solution of the differential equation

For or which y = 1 when

Give your answer in the form (7 marks)

2 Find the general solution of the differential equation

(4 marks)

3 Find the general solution of the differential equation

given that y = 0 and when x = 0 (11 marks)

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Core Pure (A level/Year 2) Unit Test 6: Differential equations

4 An engineer wants to study the effect of adding a damper to an oscillating system to


control the oscillations. She models the systems, as shown in Figure 1, with a mass
attached to a spring, which is suspended vertically from an oscillating device. The
mass is also attached to a dashpot damper.

Figure 1

The motion of the mass is modelled by the differential equation

where x is the displacement, in metres, of the mass from its equilibrium position and
t is time measured in seconds.

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Core Pure (A level/Year 2) Unit Test 6: Differential equations

a i Show that a particular integral for the differential equation is

ii Find the general solution to the differential equation. (5 marks)

b Given that x = 0 and when t = 0, find the particular solution for this
model.
c Describe what happens to the motion of the mass as

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Core Pure (A level/Year 2) Unit Test 6: Differential equations

5 A remote island has colonies of two competing species of insect, X and Y. Each
species reproduces at a rate proportional to its population and is adversely affected
by the other species at a rate proportional to the number of that species. At time t,
measured in centuries, the populations of the species, measured in tens of thousands,
are x and y respectively. The populations are modelled by the pair of simultaneous
equations

Initially x = 21 and y = 12
a Show that:

(3 marks)
b Find the particular solution for the number of insects in species X at time t
c Find the particular solution for the number of insects in species Y at time t
d This model predicts that one of the species will become extinct. Calculate the
time at which this is predicted to happen and calculate the size of the population
of the other species when this happens.

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