Advanced Engineering Mathematics: Euler Method

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Do 10 steps. Solve the problem exactly. Compute the error (Show all details).

The problems says do 10 steps, but 3-4 steps will suffice!

Problem: y(prime) = (y-x)^2
y(0) = 0
h = 0.1

I don't understand how to get the exact solution and what to do from there!
I know that,
f(x,y) = (y-x)^2

And that u = (y-x)

But from there, I am stuck!

Help!
 
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The differential equation can be solved. However it's not a very obvious solution since it is not linear.

However you can get a bound on the error if you think about the problem in terms of Taylor series. Specifically what's the difference in using Euler's method versus a Taylor series?
 
Feldoh said:
The differential equation can be solved. However it's not a very obvious solution since it is not linear.

However you can get a bound on the error if you think about the problem in terms of Taylor series. Specifically what's the difference in using Euler's method versus a Taylor series?

I don't think we're learning about Taylor series, but I just don't understand how we would solve the DE...

I can probably apply to Euler's method after solving it...
 
Hint: What is u' equal to? Rewrite the original differential equation in terms of u.
 
Prove $$\int\limits_0^{\sqrt2/4}\frac{1}{\sqrt{x-x^2}}\arcsin\sqrt{\frac{(x-1)\left(x-1+x\sqrt{9-16x}\right)}{1-2x}} \, \mathrm dx = \frac{\pi^2}{8}.$$ Let $$I = \int\limits_0^{\sqrt 2 / 4}\frac{1}{\sqrt{x-x^2}}\arcsin\sqrt{\frac{(x-1)\left(x-1+x\sqrt{9-16x}\right)}{1-2x}} \, \mathrm dx. \tag{1}$$ The representation integral of ##\arcsin## is $$\arcsin u = \int\limits_{0}^{1} \frac{\mathrm dt}{\sqrt{1-t^2}}, \qquad 0 \leqslant u \leqslant 1.$$ Plugging identity above into ##(1)## with ##u...
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