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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2012 Paper 1 13 a Solution by
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Work on an interval with . The homogeneous first-order differential equation becomes a separable differential equation under : substituting gives , hence .
For , integration gives . Renaming the arbitrary constant producesFor the nonzero family the denominator must remain nonzero, so take any connected interval avoiding both and . The zero solution must be restored after division by ; by the Picard-Lindelöf theorem away from , a solution cannot switch between zero and a nonzero branch there.
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