Solve these differential equations to see how a minus sign can change the answer
Match the descriptions of physical processes to these differential equations.
Look at the advanced way of viewing sin and cos through their power series.
Part one: We rewrite the equation as: \begin{eqnarray*} {X(t)\over K} &=& \exp\left(\log\left(\frac{X(0)}{K}\right)\exp(-\alpha t)\right) \\ \log\left(\frac{X(t)}{K}\right) &=& \log\left(\frac{X(0)}{K}\right)\exp(-\alpha t)\\ \frac{ \frac{\mathrm{d}X(t)}{\mathrm{d}t} }{X(t)} &=& \log\left(\frac{X(0)}{K}\right)(-\alpha)\exp(-\alpha t))\\ {\mathrm{d}X(t)\over \mathrm{d}t} &=& \alpha\,X(t)\log\left(\frac{K}{X(t)}\right) \end{eqnarray*}
which is our required differential equation. Part two: Again we rewrite our equation as: \begin{eqnarray*} P(t) &=& \frac{a\exp(bt)}{a-1+exp(bt)} \\ P(t)(a-1)+P(t)\exp\left(bt\right) &=& a\exp\left(bt\right) \\ \frac{P(t)(a-1)}{a-P(t)} &=& \exp\left(bt\right) \\ \log\left(P(t)(a-1)\right)-\log\left(a-P(t)\right) &=& bt \\ \Biggr(\frac{(a-1) \mathrm{d}P}{(a-1)P(t)} + \frac{\mathrm{d}P}{a-P(t)}\Biggr) &=& b\mathrm{d}t \\ \Biggr(\frac{1}{P(t)} + \frac{1}{a-P(t)}\Biggr) \mathrm{d}P &=& b\mathrm{d}t \\ \frac{\mathrm{d}P}{\mathrm{d}t} &=& \frac{b}{a} P(t)(a-P(t)) \end{eqnarray*}