See the handout on Bernoulli Equations.

Remember that a Bernoulli equation is a special nonlinear ODE that can be turned into a linear ODE and then solved using integrating factors from Section 2.3.

It requires mastery of Integrating Factors (Sec. 2.3).

Page 75, problems:

• 15, 17, 18, 19, 21

Answer to 18:

y   =   x / ( c e^-x – x + 1 )

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