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1) The document provides a problem sheet with 10 questions regarding partial differential equations (PDEs). The questions cover topics like deriving PDEs from given surfaces, properties of initial value problems for PDEs, characteristic curves, finding general integrals and solutions to Cauchy problems, and finding orthogonal surfaces. 2) Some questions ask the student to derive PDEs from given surfaces, find general integrals of given PDEs, and solve Cauchy problems for various PDEs. Other questions test understanding of properties of initial value problems, characteristic curves, and orthogonal surfaces. 3) The problem sheet provides practice with key concepts in PDEs through 10 multi-part questions spanning derivation

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Pde Tut1 2022

1) The document provides a problem sheet with 10 questions regarding partial differential equations (PDEs). The questions cover topics like deriving PDEs from given surfaces, properties of initial value problems for PDEs, characteristic curves, finding general integrals and solutions to Cauchy problems, and finding orthogonal surfaces. 2) Some questions ask the student to derive PDEs from given surfaces, find general integrals of given PDEs, and solve Cauchy problems for various PDEs. Other questions test understanding of properties of initial value problems, characteristic curves, and orthogonal surfaces. 3) The problem sheet provides practice with key concepts in PDEs through 10 multi-part questions spanning derivation

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MA 201 (Part II), July-November, 2022 session

Partial Differential Equations


Problem Sheet - 1, Date of Discussion: October 14, 2022

Derivation of PDEs, General integrals, Cauchy problems,


Integral surface through given curves, Orthogonal surfaces
Lectures 1−5

1. Find the partial differential equation arising from each of the following surfaces:
(i) u = f (x − y), (ii) 2u = (ax + y)2 + b, (iii) f (x2 + y 2 , x2 − u2 ) = 0.
(x, y: independent variables, u: dependent variable, a, b: arbitrary constants,
f : arbitrary function.)

2. Is it must that a well-posed initial value problem possesses a unique solution? Justify
your answer.

3. What is a characteristic curve? How does a PDE with two independent variables
become an ODE along the characteristic curve?

4. Find the general integral of the following partial differential equations:


(i) x2 p + y 2 q + u2 = 0, (ii) x2 (y − u)p + y 2 (u − x)q = u2 (x − y).

5. Show that the integral surface of the equation 2y(u − 3)p + (2x − u)q = y(2x − 3) that
passes through the circle x2 + y 2 = 2x, u = 0 is x2 + y 2 − u2 − 2x + 4u = 0.

6. Find the solution of the following Cauchy problems:


(i) ux + uy = 2, u(x, 0) = x2 ; (ii) 5ux + 2uy = 0, u(x, 0) = sin x.

7. Show that the Cauchy problem ux + uy = 1, u(x, x) = x has infinitely many solutions.

8. Consider the PDE xux + yuy = 4u, where x, y ∈ R. Find the characteristics curves
for the equation and determine an explicit solution that satisfies u = 1 on the circle
x2 + y 2 = 1.

9. Find a function u(x, y) that solves the Cauchy problem

x2 ux + y 2 uy = u2 , u(x, 2x) = x2 , x ∈ R.

Is the solution defined for all x and y?

10. Find the surface which is orthogonal to the one-parameter system

u = cxy(x2 + y 2 )

and which passes through the hyperbola x2 − y 2 = a2 , u = 0.

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