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    Any Maths Genius Out There- I Need Ur Help!!!!!!

    please can someone help me?


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    Re: Any Maths Genius Out There- I Need Ur Help!!!!!!

    if the answer is 4

    i never passed MATH A in highschool so I dont know math that well but I removed all the numerators and denominators junk..

    and what I see is this.
    2 + 0 = 4
    and since t = 0 and 0 with line in middle is 0

    IDK what d is

    im amusing d = 2 lol..


    now if i plug em in

    Code:
    2square and 0            2 and 0
    ---------        +  2   ------------ + 0 = 4 
    2 and 0sqaure            2 and 0
    
    
     4        0 
    --- + 2  --- + 0 = 4
     0        0
    
    
    
     4     2    0 
    --- + ---  --- + 0 = 4
     0     1    0
    
    IDK how to get any deeper bro
    Last edited by vb2dub; Jun 14th, 2007 at 09:11 PM.

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    Re: Any Maths Genius Out There- I Need Ur Help!!!!!!

    Hi there, I am doing a course on DE's at the moment, maybe I can help!

    It is nonhomogeneous, and the solution to a non-homogeneous is the homogeneous linear combination of solutions + the particular solution.

    Homogeneous solution is found by taking the characteristic equation:

    s^2 + 2s + 1 = 0 (I can't write lambda so I'll use s instead)
    (s+1)^2 = 0

    Has a double root at s=-1

    So the homogeneous solution is Theta=c1 e^-t + c2te^-t

    For the particular solution we want

    yp'' + yp' + yp = 4

    since the nonhomogeneous term is constant this is easy! Don't haave to worry about method by variation of parameters or undetermined coefficients (the only two I know)

    just set yp = 4, cause yp' and yp'' are zero.

    So your solution is,

    Theta = c1 e^-t + c2te^-t + 4

    Easy!

    This is a very straightforward problem if you are doing an introductory course on differential equations, but if you aren't I can't see where you got the problem from. Anyway, it was useful doing the problem, helped me revise for my exam :-)

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    Re: Any Maths Genius Out There- I Need Ur Help!!!!!!

    Oops I didn't noticce it was an IVP. Easy though.

    Theta = c1 e^-t + c2te^-t + 4

    t=0. theta = 0, theta'=0, t=0

    0= c1*1 + c2*0*1 + 4
    c1=-4

    theta' = -c1 e^-t + -c2te^-t+c2e^-t + 0

    0=-c1*1 + 0*c2*1 + c2*1 + 0

    0=4+c2
    c2=-4 too



    So now the solution with the initial conditions, is

    Theta = -4e^-t -4te^-t + 4

    Done!
    Last edited by Quantumcat; Jun 17th, 2007 at 11:17 PM. Reason: accidentally double-posted

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