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Sahithyan's S1 -- Maths

Variation of parameters

Consider the equation, where are functions of alone, and which has 2 fundamental solutions :

The general solution of the equation is:

Now replacing with will give , which can be found using the method of variation of parameters.

Proof

Set to simplify further equations. That implies .

Substituting to the differential equation:

This implies .

From equations and , where is the wronskian of :

can be found now using