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 calledthehomog
sition, let y erx so that y rerx y r2erx. Substituting into equation (12.10): (12.11) r2erx are rx berx erx r2 ar b 0 if and only if r is a root of the auxiliary equation. 12.1 Homogeneous Equations 177 Now unfortunately a quadratic equation does not necessarily always have …
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