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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2017 Paper 2 15 a i Solution by
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Write the differential form as , with the coefficients as printed. A monomial integrating factor can be found from . The exactness condition givesSolving yields . Thus, on ,After multiplication, the differential form isHence the implicit solutions areThe branch was excluded by the integrating factor but satisfies the original equation and must be restored. On any graph branch with , differentiation of the boxed first integral recovers the original differential equation.
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