Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems 9th Edition

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Chapter 3 - Second Order Linear Equations - 3.3 Complex Roots of the Characteristic Equation - Problems - Page 165: 40

Answer

$$ t^{2} y^{\prime \prime}- t y^{\prime}+5 y=0 , \quad t > 0 $$ the general solution of the given differential equation is $$ y(t) =t [c_{1} \cos (2 \ln t)+ c_{2} \sin (2 \ln t )] $$ where $ c_{1} $ and $c_{2}$ are arbitrary constants.

Work Step by Step

$$ t^{2} y^{\prime \prime}- t y^{\prime}+5 y=0 , \quad t > 0 \quad (1). $$ Let $ x = \ln t$ . Then we have $$ \frac{d y}{d t}=\frac{d y}{d x} \frac{d x}{d t}=\frac{1}{t} \frac{d y}{d x} $$ $$ \frac{d^{2} y}{d t^{2}}=\frac{d}{d t}\left(\frac{1}{t} \frac{d y}{d x}\right)=\frac{-1}{t^{2}} \frac{d y}{d x}+\frac{1}{t} \frac{d}{d t}\left(\frac{d y}{d x}\right)=\frac{1}{t^{2}}\left(-\frac{d y}{d x}+\frac{d^{2} y}{d x^{2}}\right) $$ So if we use $x$ instead of $t$ as the variable, the equation (with unknown $y $ and variable $ x$) reads $$ \frac{d^{2} y}{d x^{2}}- 2\frac{d y}{d x}+ 5 y=0, \quad (2) $$ We assume that $ y = e^{rx}$, and it then follows that $r$ must be a root of the characteristic equation $$ r^{2}-2r+5=0, $$ so its roots are $$ \:r_{1,\:2}=\frac{-\left(-2\right)\pm \sqrt{\left(-2\right)^2-4\cdot \:1\cdot \:5}}{2\cdot \:1}\quad $$ Thus the possible values of $r$ are $$r_{1}= 1+2i ,\quad r_{2}=1-2i,.$$ Therefore two solutions of Eq. (1) are $$ y_{1}(x) = e^{(1+2i )x}= e^{x} ( \cos 2x + i \sin 2 x ) $$ and $$ y_{2}(x) = e^{(1-2i )x}= e^{x} ( \cos 2x - i \sin 2 x ) $$ Thus the general solution of the differential equation is $$ y(x) = e^{(x)} ( c_{1} \cos 2x+ c_{2} \sin 2 x ) \quad\quad\quad (2) $$ where $ c_{1} $and $c_{2}$ are arbitrary constants. Back to t: $$ \begin{split} y(t) & = e^{( \ln t)} ( c_{1} \cos 2 \ln t+ c_{2} \sin 2 \ln t ) \\ & = t [c_{1} \cos (2 \ln t)+ c_{2} \sin (2 \ln t )] \end{split} $$ where $ c_{1} $and $c_{2}$ are arbitrary constants.
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