In: Mechanical Engineering
Two tanks each contain 100 gal of water and tank 2 initially has 50 lbs of salt uniformly dissolved in it. An external flow brings adds 5 gal/min to tank 1 with 5 lbs of salt in it. Tank 1 feeds tank 2 at 10 gal/min, and tank 2 feeds back to tank 1 at 5 gal/min. Finally, an exit stream leaves tank 2 at 5 gal/min.
1) Use Laplace transforms to solve the system of ODEs modeling this system and report the amount of salt in tank 2 as a function of time.
2)find the Homogeneous solution for the system of ODEs above without Laplace transforms; instead, using eigenvalues/eigenvectors.
3)Solve the Particular solution for the system of ODEs above using Undetermined Coefficients.