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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2012 / Paper 1 / 10 / i / Solution by

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Write the energy form as

Q [ψ] = \int_{α}^{β} (p ∣ ψ^{'} ∣^{2} + q ∣ ψ ∣^{2}) d x

and the weighted squared norm as

N [ψ] = \int_{α}^{β} w ∣ ψ ∣^{2} d x

. For real coefficients and appropriate homogeneous boundary conditions, the Sturm-Liouville problem is the stationary-point equation for their Rayleigh quotient

Q / N

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