Question: Suppose that instead of assuming that all pollution inflow immediately ceases, we model P i (t) by a decaying exponential of the form a

Suppose that instead of assuming that all pollution inflow immediately ceases, we model Pi(t) by a decaying exponential of the form a · e–pt where p is a constant that tells us how fast the inflow is being cleaned of pollution. To simplify things, we’ll also assume that initially the inflow and the lake have the same pollution concentration, so a = PL(0)Now substitute a = PL(0)e–px for Pi(x) in Equation (1), and evaluate the integral as a function of t.


Equation 1

e-k[P(0) + k["P,(x)e* dx] PL(t)= (1)

e-k[P(0) + k["P,(x)e* dx] PL(t)= (1)

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