Solve the initial value problem. State which rule you are using.
Show each step of your calculation in detail.
(1)
Initial conditions are:
The general solution of the homogeneous ordinary differential equation is
We can use this information to determine the characteristic equation:
And proceeding to find the roots,
Thus, .
Solving for the roots, we find that
where the general solution is
.
The solution of of the non-homogeneous ordinary differential equation is
.
Using the Sum rule as described in Section 2.7, the above function translates into the following:
, where Table 2.1 tells us that:
and .
Therefore, .
Now, we can substitute the values () into (1) to get:
Now that we have this equation, we can equate coefficients to find that:
and thus,
We find that the general solution is in fact:
whereas the general solution of the given ordinary differential equation is actually:
Solving for the initial conditions given and first plugging in , we get that:
. (2)
And now we can determine the first order ODE :
The second initial condition that was given to us, can now be plugged in:
(3)
Once we solve (2) and (3), we can get the values:
.
And once we substitute these values, we get the following solution for this IVP:
(1)
Initial conditions are:
The general solution of the homogeneous ordinary differential equation is
We can use this information to determine the characteristic equation:
And proceeding to find the roots,
Solving for the roots, we find that
where the general solution is:
, or:
Now, according to the Modification Rule and Table 2.1 in Section 2.7, we know that we have to multiply by x to get:
, since the solution of is a double root of the characteristic equation.
We can then derive to get :
Deriving once again to solve for , we get the following:
Now, we can substitute the values () into (1) to get:
Now that we have this equation, we can equate coefficients to find that:
and
and finally discover that:
and .
Plugging in these values in , we find that:
And finally, we arrive at the general solution of the given ordinary differential equation:
Solving for the initial conditions given and first plugging in , we get that:
The second initial condition that was given to us, can now be plugged in:
And once we substitute these values, we get the following solution for this IVP: