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Past exam of the mathematical methods I course of the University of Oxford 2014 resit 13 ii Solution by
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Set . Wherever , the chain rule and the given implicit differential equation giveThus and . Squaring without losing the square-root sign restriction giveswith 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 .
Singular initial-point branches and the parabolic integral curves, with their graph-domain restrictions
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