5/27/2017 DifferentialEquationsNonhomogeneousDifferentialEquations

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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