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EPhillips1989

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Registered: 2007-11-03

Posts: 29

PLEASE HElP

hey im trying to revise second order differential equations but i am struggling finding the general solution for equations of the following form

taking x as a solution of the equation i am going to substitute y=x.v(x) which gives:

substituting this into the equation gives:

which simplifies to:

can anyone please show me how i can solve the general solution from this point

treehugger96

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Registered: 2007-12-24

Posts: 10

Re: PLEASE HElP

x squared times each of the algerbic expressions in the fraction added to 3x to the power of 5 times each of the algerbic expressions in the fraction.
sorry if that's not much help
regards
treehugger96

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