Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

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Chapter 9 - Section 9.1 - Modeling with Differential Equations - 9.1 Exercises - Page 591: 17

Answer

$c(t) = c_s(1-e^{-\alpha t^{1-b}}~)~~$ is a solution. The differential equation shows that the rate is a maximum at the start when $c_s-c$ is a maximum, but the rate decreases toward zero as $c$ gets closer to $c_s$

Work Step by Step

$c(t) = c_s(1-e^{-\alpha t^{1-b}})$ We can verify that this function is a solution of the differential equation: $\frac{dc}{dt} = (-c_se^{-\alpha t^{1-b}})[-\alpha\cdot (1-b)\cdot t^{-b}]$ $\frac{dc}{dt} = (c_se^{-\alpha t^{1-b}})[\frac{k}{1-b}\cdot (1-b)\cdot t^{-b}]$ $\frac{dc}{dt} = \frac{k}{t^b}(c_se^{-\alpha t^{1-b}})$ $\frac{dc}{dt} = \frac{k}{t^b}(c_s-c_s+c_se^{-\alpha t^{1-b}})$ $\frac{dc}{dt} = \frac{k}{t^b}[c_s-(c_s-c_se^{-\alpha t^{1-b}})]$ $\frac{dc}{dt} = \frac{k}{t^b}[c_s-c_s(1-e^{-\alpha t^{1-b}})]$ $\frac{dc}{dt} = \frac{k}{t^b}(c_s-c)$ Therefore $~~c(t) = c_s(1-e^{-\alpha t^{1-b}}~)~~$ is a solution. The differential equation shows that the rate is a maximum at the start when $c$ is far from $c_s$, but the rate decreases toward zero as $c$ gets closer to $c_s$
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