Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematical-methods-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2013-resit/10/b/solution

Fixed endpoints select sine normal modes with and . The product identity decomposes the held initial profile into and , with amplitudes and . Zero initial velocity selects cosine time dependence. Therefore
Both endpoints vanish at every time. At the product-form displacement is recovered and . The implicit leading displacement amplitude is one in the source's chosen length units; including a physical amplitude multiplies the whole solution by .

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