## anonymous 5 years ago Need a few pointers plz? Q. Find the first two positive eigenvalues of the following BVE : So lambda>0 y" + (lambda)y = 0 BV(1) : 5y(0) - 2y'(0) = 0 BV(2) : 5y(1) + 2y'(1) =0

1. anonymous

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2. anonymous

i haven't worked a lot with second order DE's but i think i figured this one out for you. general solution to y" + (lambda)y = 0 is: $y(x) = c1\cos (ux) + c2\sin (ux)$ where u = sqrt(lambda) differentiate to get y' $y'(x) = -c1u \sin (ux) + c2 u \cos (ux)$ apply initial conditions : (i) 5/2*y(0) = y'(0) (ii) -5/2*y(1) =y'(1) yielding $\frac{5}{2}c1=uc2 \rightarrow c1 =\frac{2uc2}{5}$ $-\frac{5}{2}c1\cos (u)-\frac{5}{2}c2\sin (u) = -uc1\sin (u) + uc2\cos (u)$ $\rightarrow \sin (u)(-\frac{5}{2}c2+uc1) = \cos (u)(\frac{5}{2}c1+uc2)$ $\rightarrow \frac{\sin (u)}{\cos (u)}=\frac{\frac{5}{2}c1+uc2}{uc1-\frac{5}{2}c2}$ substitute in value of c1 from (i) for c1 in (ii) simplifying leaves $\tan (u)=\frac{20u}{(2u+5)(2u-5)}$ solving for u>0 gives approximately 1.86,4.25 ... lambda = u^2 $\lambda \approx 3.45, 18.06$

3. anonymous

Excellent, thankyou :-)