Transcription of Second Order Linear Differential Equations
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CHAPTER12 SecondOrderLinearDifferentialEquations a relationinvolvingvariablesx y y y . Asolutionis a functionf x suchthatthesubstitutiony f x y f x y f x givesanidentity. Thedifferentialequationissaidtobelineari f it is linearinthevariablesy y y . We have alreadyseen( )how tosolve firstorderlinearequations; ( )y ay by g x whereaandbareconstants,andg x is a differentiablefunctionofx. ,wesaw thata firstorderequationhasa one-parameterfamilyofsolutions,andthatth especificationofaninitialconditiony x0 y0uniquelydeterminesa , ,andnumbers y0 y 0, there isa uniquefunctionf x which solvesthedifferentialequation( )andsatisfiestheinitialconditionsf x0 y0 f x0 y tocompletelysolve equation( )whenthefunctionontherighthandsideis zero:( )y ay by 0 Thisis calledthehomo
A differential equation is a relation involvingvariables x y y y . A solution is a function f x such that the substitution y f x y f x y f x gives an identity. The differential equation is said to be linear if it is linear in the variables y y y . We have already seen (in section 6.4) how to
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