2) If $y_{p}(t)$ solves 1) then the general solution to $y(t)$ is $y(t)=y_{h}(t)+y_{p}(t)$
theorem: if $p(t),\ q(t),\ f(t)$ are continuous on $I$ then the following IVP has a unique solution: $y''+p(t)y'+q(t)y=f(t)\quad \text{where}\quad y''(t_{o}),\ y'(t_{o}),\ y(t_{o})\in I$
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# Method of undetermined coefficients:
#ex #mouc Find the general solution for:
$$y''-4y'+4y=3t+9$$
The equation is certainly non-homogenous.
First we have to find general solution to the homogenous equation (ie: find $y_{h}(t))$:
1) $y''-4y'+4y=0$
characteristic eq: $r^2-4r+4=0$
$r=2$ (repeated root)
$y_{h}(t)=c_{1}e^{2t}+c_{2}te^{2t}$
Good. Now we need $y_{p}(t):$
Look at the equation again: $y''+{-4}y'+4y=3t+9$
We are looking for a particular polynomial where the power is not greater than 1. Because if for example $y_{p}(t)=t^2$ then the LHS would be a degree 2 polynomial and yet the RHS is only a degree one polynomial.
So we guess that the equation will be of the form:
2) $y_{p}(t)=At+B$
$y_{p}'=A,\ y_{p}''=0$
$0-4A+4(At+B)=3t+9$
$4A=3,\ -4A+4B=9$
$A=\frac{3}{4},\ B=3$
$y_{p}(t)=\frac{3}{4}t+3$ <-ourguessworked!
general solution: $$y(t)=c_{1}e^{2t}+c_{2}te^{2t}+\frac{3}{4}t+3$$
So the big takeaway from this example is if the RHS of the eq is a polynomial of degree u, we try to find a solution as a polynomial of degree u
we observe the RHS is some exponential, we need the function + its derivative + its second derivative to equal that, we have no option but suspect that its $Ae^{2t}$
but then the LHS becomes 0! -> $4Ae^{2t}-4\cdot 2Ae^{2t}+4Ae^{2t}=0$
so $Ae^{2t}$ is a wrong guess.
So what do we do? Let's try $Ate^{2t}$ take $c_{2}=A, c_{1}=0$, this does not work again. LHS becomes 0 again -> $A(t4e^{2t}+2e^{2t}+2e^{2t})-4A(t2e^{2t}+e^{2t})+4Ate^{2t}=0$
we know the homogenous solution and the particular solution. Sum them together to get the general solution:
$$y(t)=c_{1}e^{2t}+c_{2}te^{2t}+t^2e^{2t}$$
Moral of story? if RHS is constant times $e^{2t}$ we guess with an exponent with a constant, if its homogenous we multiply by t, if still not a valid solution then we multiply by t again.
#ex #IVP #second_order_nonhomogenous #mouc
$$y''+2y'+2y=2e^{-t}+5\cos t \qquad y(0)=3,\ y'(0)=1$$
We wanna solve this IVP! We know from earlier that it must have a unique solution.
1) set RHS to 0: $r^2+2r+2=0$
$r_{1,2}=-1\pm i$
>someone mentions sqrt(i). sqrt(i) is interesting, but not the topic for today.
$y_{h}(t)=e^{-t}(c_{1}\cos(t)+c_{2}\sin(t))$
2) $y_{p}(t)=\ ?$
RHS is much more complicated, sum of 2 functions. Lets use principle of super position:
*remember in a previous example when we had to guess that $y_{p}=At^2e^{2t}$? Here is a generalized algorithm that can find $y_{p}$ when the RHS falls under the following form. Reducing the guess work to zero:*
# Generalized guesses for undetermined coefficients:
case i) $ay''+by'+cy=P_m(t)e^{rt}$
where $P_{m}(t)=a_{m}t^m+a_{m-1}t^{m-1}+ \dots +a_{0}$ *i.e. P is a polynomial degree m.*
Then we guess the particular solution is of the form: $y_{p}(t)=t^s(b_{m}t^m+b_{m-1}t^{m-1}+\dots+b_{0})e^{rt}$
case ii) $ay''+by'+cy=P_{m}(t)e^{\alpha t}\cos(\beta t)+Q_{n}(t)e^{\alpha t}\sin(\beta t)$
Then we guess the particular solution is of the form: $y_{p}(t)=t^s[(A_{k}t^k+A_{k-1}t^{k-1}+\dots+A_{0})e^{\alpha t}\cos(\beta t)+(B_{k}t^k+B_{k-1}t^{k-1}+\dots+B_{0})e^{\alpha t}\sin(\beta t)]$