How do you solve a Differential equation for beginners

[janemba]

how do you solve a Differential equation ?

for example how do you solve this

d/dt y(t)=t^2 y(t)

step by step help would be appreciated where + w2x = 0 is suppose to be in between d^x and dt^

 

[Google_Spider]

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[Google_Spider]

I don't get it.

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[rock.freak667]

What you want to solve is
\frac{dy}{dt}=t^2y
You can rearrange this into
\frac{1}{y}\frac{dy}{dt}=t^2
You can now integrate both sides with respect to t.

 

[janemba]

how do you integrate it ? please tell me how

 

[rock.freak667]

\int \frac{1}{y}\frac{dy}{dt} dt= \int t^2 dt

and this is the same as:

\int \frac{1}{y}dy= \int t^2 dt

Can you integrate this now?

 

[Snazzy]

\int \frac{1}{y}dy = \int t^2dt

And carry on from there.

Whoops, someone beat me.

 

[janemba]

what are the rules of integrating

 

[Snazzy]

You can look up integration rules on the internet. Integrating is undoing the derivative, ie. finding the antiderivative.

 

[janemba]

wheres the best site to learn it from ? where did you learn it from

 

[Snazzy]

I learned it through a high school calculus course. If you don't know how to integrate, I suggest you ask your professor/teacher.