Introduction to Systems of Differential Equations: The Method of Elimination

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Aug 1st 2007, 02:00 PM
googoogaga

Introduction to Systems of Differential Equations: The Method of Elimination

Please Help mewith this problem, I am not really getting the double prime stuff...

-Find the General Solution to the system

{ x'' = -5x + 2y
{ y'' = 2x - 8y
Aug 1st 2007, 02:24 PM
ThePerfectHacker

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Originally Posted by googoogaga

Please Help mewith this problem, I am not really getting the double prime stuff...

-Find the General Solution to the system

{ x'' = -5x + 2y
{ y'' = 2x - 8y

$2y = x''+5x\implies 2y''=x''''+5x''$
Substitute,
$x''''+5x'' = 4x - 8x'' - 40x$
$x'''' + 13 x'' +40 x = 0$
$x = C_1\sin (t\sqrt{5})+C_2\cos (t\sqrt{5})+C_3\sin (t\sqrt{8})+C_4\cos (t\sqrt{8})$

You do now "y".

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