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  e2 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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