Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1285741552
ISBN 13: 978-1-28574-155-0

Chapter 9 - Review - Exercises - Page 635: 14

Answer

The orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves $$ y=e^{kx} $$ are $$ 2 y^{2} \ln y-y^{2}=C-2 x^{2} $$

Work Step by Step

To find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves $$ y=e^{kx} $$ First differentiate both sides: $$ \frac{d}{d x}(y)=\frac{d}{d x}\left(e^{kx}\right) \Rightarrow y^{\prime}=k e^{x}=\frac{\ln y }{x}y, $$ an orthogonal trajectory must have a slope that is the negative reciprocal of the tangent line slope: $$ y^{\prime}=\frac{-x }{ y \ln y}, $$ we write the equation in terms of differentials and integrate both sides: $$ \frac{d y}{d x}=-\frac{x}{y \ln y} \Rightarrow y \ln y d y=-x d x \Rightarrow \int y \ln y d y=-\int x d x $$ integrate by parts with $$ u=\ln y ,\quad\quad d v=y d y \\ du = \frac{dy}{y} ,\quad\quad v=\frac{1}{2}y ^{2} $$ we get $$ \frac{1}{2} y^{2} \ln y-\frac{1}{2} \int y d y= -\frac{1}{2} x^{2} +C_{1} $$ $\Rightarrow $ $$ 2 y^{2} \ln y-y^{2}=C-2 x^{2} $$ where $C=2C_{1}$ is an arbitrary constant. Thus the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves $$ y=e^{kx} $$ are $$ 2 y^{2} \ln y-y^{2}=C-2 x^{2} $$
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