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NonhomogeneousDifferentialEquations
Itsnowtimetostartthinkingabouthowtosolvenonhomogeneousdifferentialequations.Asecondorder,
linearnonhomogeneousdifferentialequationis
(1)
whereg(t)isanonzerofunction.Notethatwedidntgowithconstantcoefficientsherebecauseeverything
thatweregoingtodointhissectiondoesntrequireit.Also,wereusingacoefficientof1onthesecond
derivativejusttomakesomeoftheworkalittleeasiertowritedown.Itisnotrequiredtobea1.
Beforetalkingabouthowtosolveoneoftheseweneedtogetsomebasicsoutoftheway,whichisthepoint
ofthissection.
First,wewillcall
(2)
theassociatedhomogeneousdifferentialequationto(1).
Now,letstakealookatthefollowingtheorem.
Theorem
SupposethatY1(t)andY2(t)aretwosolutionsto(1)and
thaty1(t)andy2(t)areafundamentalsetofsolutionstotheassociated
homogeneousdifferentialequation(2)then,
isasolutionto(2)anditcanbewrittenas
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