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## Craig4242 Group Title d^2y/dt^2= 1-e^2t, y(1)=-1,y'(1)=0 What is the initial value? one year ago one year ago

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1. myininaya

Do you mean solve the IVP?

2. Craig4242

Yes:)

3. Spacelimbus

The way I approach such a problem: Solve the homogenous part of the differential equation first: $\Large y''(x)=0$ So the solution to this, almost trivial DE is: $\Large y_g(x)=Cx+K$ Where C and K are constants of integration. Now you need to find the particular solution to the homogenous differential equation. This is usually done by guessing. Since: $\Large y''(x)=1-e^{2x}$ A 'okay' guess could be: $\Large y_p(x)=A+Be^{2x}$ Notice here that this is not yet good enough, see the solution already obtained above. We have Cx + K. So, in order to not overlap any solutions, we want to increase the linear exponent again: $\Large y_p(x)=Ax^2+Be^{2x}$ Now this is a good guess. Substituting back will give you: $\Large 2A+4Be^{2x}=1-e^{2x}$ From which you can obtain that: $\Large A= \frac{1}{2}, \ B= -\frac{1}{4}$ So given by the principle of superposition you have: $\Large y(x)=y_p(x)+y_g(x)=Cx+K+\frac{1}{2}x^2-\frac{1}{4}e^{2x}$

4. Craig4242

I am not yet familiar with the methods you demonstrated above. Here is the answer I get: $^{x^2/2}-^{e^2x/4}+^{e^2/4}-x-(1/2)$

5. Craig4242

As I am new to typing equations, I wonder how you made your's look so neat?

6. Spacelimbus

I recommend you to check out Paul's website then, he has an amazing introduction to the method I suggested above, clearly, it's not the only one to solve this problem. But it makes inhomogeneous differential equations quite straight forward to solve. Here is the link: http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/UndeterminedCoefficients.aspx As to $$\LaTeX$$. First I use the perimeter \Large to make my equations look bigger, or in the case of this website - just more readable. You can write fraction by typing \frac{nominator}{denominator}

7. Craig4242

Thanks for the help:)