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Fundamentals Of Differential Equations And Boundary Value Problems
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Fundamentals Of Differential Equations And Boundary Value Problems

Fundamentals Of Differential Equations And Boundary Value Problems

Book edition 9th
Author(s) R. Kent Nagle, Edward B. Saff, Arthur David Snider
Pages 616 pages
ISBN 9780321977069

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Use the annihilator method to show that if f(x) in (4) has the form f(x)=Beαx, then equation (4) has a particular solution of the form yp(x)=xsBeαx, where sis chosen to be the smallest nonnegative integer such that xseαx is not a solution to the corresponding homogeneous equation

yp=xsλeαxis the form of particular solution.

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Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Definition

A linear differential operator Ais said to annihilate a functionfif A[f](x)=0--(2) for all x. That is, A annihilates fiffis a solution to the homogeneous linear differential equation (2) on.

(-,)

Step 2: Find particular solution

Given that f(x)=Beαx

Since eαx is annihilated by (D-α)so we have:

(D-α)any(n)(x)+..+a0y=Beαx

To check ifeαxis solution of homogeneous equation then ypyhomogeneous So take .

yp=xsλeαx

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