Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-1-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2004/paper-2/11/ii/solution

For equation (1), the characteristic equation is , so . The initial conditions give and , whence , . Thus
For equation (2), the transformed solution is . At one has and . The initial conditions therefore give , , yielding
The domain is the regular interval containing the initial point and the one covered by .

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