<i>The world is non-linear, many solutions, many paths to the solution. It's why linear equations play so nice. We just look down it's path and we will know that it's a straight line for eternity.</i>
In order for $\mu(x) P(x)=\mu'(x)$ to be true, $\frac{ d\mu }{ dx }=\mu(x)P(x)\Rightarrow \frac{ d\mu }{ \mu }=P(x)dx\Rightarrow\int \frac{d\mu}{\mu}=\int P(x) \, dx\Rightarrow\ \ln\mid \mu\mid=\int P(x) \, dx$
>I'm not sure why the professor allows the absolute value to be dropped in the following step, I think he said that he argues all solutions can be found even if we focus only where $\mu$ is +, idk.
finally we get that $\mu(x)=I(x)=e^{\int P(x) \, dx}\quad \Box$ #remember
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#end of lecture 2 #start of lecture 3
# Examples of linear equations:
#ex #de_L_type2 Find the general solution to the equation:
## $$(1+\sin(x))y'+2\cos(x)y=\tan(x)$$
let $a(x)=1+sin(x)\qquad b(x)=2\cos(x)$
we can see that $b(x)\ne a'(x)$ :( so we cant use #de_L_type1
> The prof simply drops the absolute value. I don't understand why. Sigma asf tbh. I think it's because he said linear DE are nice because their solutions are unique with an IVP, non linear equations are not necessarily unique. So if we find one solution we know that we found the only solution possible.