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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Paper 1 2 b Solution by
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First decompose the initial dependence using . Only the cosine indices and occur. Expand the remaining factor in a Fourier sine series:For , two integrations by parts giveThus even vanish, while for odd . The nonzero double-series coefficients are and . Their separate heat-mode decay factors giveAt the bracket is , which recovers the initial profile with the displayed sine coefficients. Each term satisfies the mixed Dirichlet boundary conditions and Neumann boundary conditions.
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