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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2008 Paper 1 3 ii Solution by
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The zero initial value and slope select a forward Green's function: set it to zero for , and choose the right piece to start at zero with slope one. This givesFor on and zero elsewhere,Indeed . It and its first derivative match at one, while at zero. The only homogeneous solution with these two initial limits is zero, so this solution too is unique. Its growth at infinity is allowed by these boundary conditions.
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