Английская Википедия:Inexact differential equation

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An inexact differential equation is a differential equation of the form (see also: inexact differential)

<math>M(x,y) \, dx+N(x,y) \, dy=0, \text{ where } \frac{\partial M}{\partial y} \ne \frac{\partial N}{\partial x}. </math>

The solution to such equations came with the invention of the integrating factor by Leonhard Euler in 1739.[1]

Solution method

In order to solve the equation, we need to transform it into an exact differential equation. In order to do that, we need to find an integrating factor <math>\mu</math> to multiply the equation by. We'll start with the equation itself. <math>M\,dx+N\,dy=0</math>, so we get <math>\mu M\,dx+\mu N\,dy=0</math>. We will require <math>\mu</math> to satisfy <math display="inline">\frac{\partial\mu M}{\partial y}=\frac{\partial\mu N}{\partial x}</math>. We get

<math>\frac{\partial\mu}{\partial y}M+\frac{\partial M}{\partial y}\mu=\frac{\partial\mu}{\partial x}N+\frac{\partial N}{\partial x}\mu.</math>

After simplifying we get

<math>M\mu_y-N\mu_x+(M_y-N_x)\mu = 0.</math>

Since this is a partial differential equation, it is mostly extremely hard to solve, however in some cases we will get either <math>\mu (x,y) =\mu (x)</math> or <math>\mu (x,y) =\mu (y)</math>, in which case we only need to find <math>\mu</math> with a first-order linear differential equation or a separable differential equation, and as such either

<math>\mu(y)=e^{-\int{\frac{M_y-N_x}{M} \, dy}}</math>

or

<math>\mu(x)=e^{\int{\frac{M_y-N_x}{N} \, dx}}.</math>

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