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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 2 15 a i Solution by
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The initial data force , so the implicit relation factors as . Near this permits either the constant branch or the sine branch:Both satisfy the original equation, including its degenerate value at the initial point. They have different slopes there, zero and one, so the initial value problem is not unique. There are no further differentiable local branches through that point: away from the two factors cannot switch, and joining the two different branches at zero would give unequal one-sided derivatives.
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