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Questions tagged [reduction-of-order-ode]

To use when our aim is to solve an ODE (of any order) only with reduction of order method. If you just want to solve an ODE use the tag differential-equations.

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What are the conditions under which the formula I've given below for an inhomogeneous reducible 2nd‐order ODE is valid? I have the second‐order inhomogeneous ODE $$ y''(t) \;+\; h(t)\,y'(t)\;+\;q(t)\,...
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Given question Given $y=x$ is a solution of $6x^3y’’’ - 24x^2y’’ + 48xy’-48y = 0$. Find the general solution if $x>0$. My work Since we are given that $y = x$ is a solution, my first approach would ...
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Need help solving this differential equation$$xy''+(x+l)y'+ly=0$$ where $l\in \mathbb{R}$\ I tried using the Frobenius method. $x_0=0$ is a regular singular point and Assume that we have the solution ...
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If $y_{1}(x) = \frac{\sin(x)}{\sqrt(x)}$ is one solution of the differential equation $$x^2y'' +xy' + (x^2-\frac{1}{4})y = 0$$ find the second solution $y_{2}(x)$. My effort using Wronskian The ...
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Given the equation y'' + 2y' + y = 0 and the solution y1 = ${xe}^{-x}$. Solve for a second solution $y_2$. I've solved it twice and get $y_2 = {xe}^{-x}(-{x}^{-1}+c)$ , but that's not being counted ...
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This is the question, given that; $y_1 = x$ $$ (x^2+1)y''-2xy' +2y = 0 $$ other form $$ y''-\dfrac {2x}{(x^2+1)}y' +\dfrac {2}{(x^2+1)}y = 0 $$ using the formula $y_2 = y_1 \int e^{-\int p(x)dx} / y_1^...
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How to reduce the following O.D.E. into first order? $v v_{yyy} + 2 v v_{yy}-v_{y}v_{yy} + v_{y} v^3 + v_y v -v_{y}^2 = 0$, where $v=v(y)$ and $v_{y}$ is the derivative w.r.t. $y$. I tried it by ...
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I want to solve $y'' +y^3 = 0$ with the boundary conditions $y(0) = a$ and $y(k) = b$. My goal is to reduce this problem to $y' +y^2 = 0$ while solving but I'm not sure it can be done. I tried ...
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How to reduce the following O.D.E. into first order? $$(vv_{xxx}-v_{x}v_{xx})g^2 + v^3 v_x = 0, \tag{1}$$ where $v=v(x)$ and $v_{x}$ is the derivative w.r.t $x$, $g$ is a constant. After integration, ...
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How can we reduce this differential equation into first-order differential equation? $\left( {\frac {\rm d}{{\rm d}z}}U \left( z \right) \right) ^{3}{ \frac {{\rm d}^{2}}{{\rm d}{z}^{2}}}U \left( z \...
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I am trying to determine how to turn these two 2nd order ODEs into a system of four 1st order ODEs with initial conditions. Afterwards, I am to turn it into a matrix. eqn 1: $$3.2\theta''_1 + 1.44[\...
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I am trying to perform model reduction on a system of algebraic equations by reducing the number of variables in the system. In doing so I am not trying to remove equations from the system, rather I ...
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Solve the equation $ty''-y'+4t^3y=0, t>0$ given that $\sin(t^2)$ is a solution. (I am aware that this has been asked before but the answers did not help me). My attempt: I want to use reduction of ...
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How the following 4th order linear differential equation can be reduced to two 2nd order differential equations, if possible. $a$ and $b$ are constants. $$X^2 Y^{(4)}(X) + 2 (a+2) X Y^{(3)}(X) + (...
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For the reduction of order method, we are supposed to guess a solution, $y_1$, and assume that the second solution (this will be second order as the title shows) is of the form $y_2=uy_1$. But I'm ...
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