Solution

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Set and , so . By the chain rule, the equation becomes . The substitution reduces it further to
Multiplication by and integration by parts gives for a nonzero solution, ruling out zero and negative eigenvalues. For , the first boundary condition gives , and the second gives , . Thus all eigenpairs are
with arbitrary nonzero scalar multiples of each eigenfunction. These are the complete list since all solutions of the constant-coefficient differential equation have been considered; the transformed sine system is also complete in the corresponding weighted Hilbert space.

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