Connecting a mathematical solution to a differential equation with it's physical solution

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I have seen this question in a neuroscience course: enter image description here

It is given after the lecture with these and these slides.

I have no background in physics. However, I do know how to solve a differential equation of this form. It is a linear first order differential equation.

So, here is my solutions for the cases of $I=0$ and $I=const=I_0$: enter image description here

However, I can't connect the two solutions (mine and the one given in the course).

In other words, how come all 3 answers are correct?

  1. where does the $T(t-s)$ come from?

  2. where does the 9.5 come from?

  3. How can I get from the question that I have to integrate from $0$ to $t$ or from $0$ to $infty$?.

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$9.5-u_{rest}$ can be accounted for by your constant $C_0$. Since you already can see why the third option is correct (actually directly from the question by using the integrating factor), you can perform a substitution to get the first option, and then add the homogenous solution to get the second option.