Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematical-methods-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2014-resit/13/ii/solution

Set . Wherever , the chain rule and the given implicit differential equation give
Thus and . Squaring without losing the square-root sign restriction gives
with either sign of on its interval of definition. These parabolas satisfy . Their vertex is a regular point as a parametrized curve but cannot belong to a differentiable graph satisfying the equation: there while . The degenerate case gives the separate solution in the differential-form interpretation printed in the paper. It would be lost by dividing the equation by .
Figure 1.
Singular initial-point branches and the parabolic integral curves, with their graph-domain restrictions
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