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jellicorse
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I was wondering if somebody could clear up some confusion I have regarding this.
I've been going over the derivation for obtaining the integrating factor again in my book and there is one step I don't understand.
There's no point going through the whole thing from scratch, but I've got to the point where we need to multiply the whole DE by a function [tex]\mu(t)[/tex] such that the LHS of the DE is recognizable as the derivative of some function.
Need to choose [tex]\mu(t)[/tex] to satisfy:
[tex]\frac{d\mu(t)}{dt}=2[/tex] for this particular example.
[tex]\frac{d\mu(t)/dt}{\mu(t)}=2[/tex]
But I don't see how the next step follows from the previous one:
[tex]\frac{d}{dt}ln|\mu(t)|=2[/tex]
In particular, I don't see where the [tex]ln|\mu(t)|[/tex] has come from.
Can anyone tell me how this works?
I've been going over the derivation for obtaining the integrating factor again in my book and there is one step I don't understand.
There's no point going through the whole thing from scratch, but I've got to the point where we need to multiply the whole DE by a function [tex]\mu(t)[/tex] such that the LHS of the DE is recognizable as the derivative of some function.
Need to choose [tex]\mu(t)[/tex] to satisfy:
[tex]\frac{d\mu(t)}{dt}=2[/tex] for this particular example.
[tex]\frac{d\mu(t)/dt}{\mu(t)}=2[/tex]
But I don't see how the next step follows from the previous one:
[tex]\frac{d}{dt}ln|\mu(t)|=2[/tex]
In particular, I don't see where the [tex]ln|\mu(t)|[/tex] has come from.
Can anyone tell me how this works?