MA2177 Exercise 2 - Higher Order Ordinary Differential Equations
1. Determine the general solutions of the following differential equations:
(a) y"5 y '6 y 0 (b) 4 y"4 y ' y 0
(c) y"6 y '13 y 0 (d) y' ' '8 y 0
(e) y ( 4) 2 y" y 0
2. Solve the following differential equations, subject to the given boundary conditions:
(a) y"7 y'12 y 0 , with y(0) 1 and y' (0) 2 .
d2y dy dy 5
(b) 4 12 9y 0 , with y 1 and when x 0 .
dx 2 dx dx 2
3. Solve the following differential equations by using the method of undetermined coefficients:
(a) y" y '6 y 18 x 2 5 (b) y"2 y '5 y e x cos(2 x)
(c) y"4 y '13 y e2 x cos x (d) 9 y"6 y' y 2 xe x
4. Solve the following differential equations by using the method of variation of parameters:
d2y dy ex d2y dy 1
(a) 2 4 2y (b) 3 2y
dx 2 dx x dx 2 dx 1 e x
(c) y" y sec3 x
5. Solve the following second order differential equations:
(a) y"5 y ' e5 x (b) y"4 y '5 y 6 xe x
(c) y"9 y 2 sin 3 x (d) y"6 y '9 y 4e3 x
(e) y"2 y '10 y 6e x sin 3x (f) y"4 y'5 y e2 x csc x
6. Solve the following initial value problems:
(a) y"4 y '5 y 8 cos x 16 sin x with the initial conditions y(0) 3 , y' (0) 0 .
(b) y' ' ' y" x 2e x with the initial conditions y(0) 0 , y' (0) 1 , y" (0) 0
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