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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2020 Paper 1 8 b ii Solution by
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At fixed frequency, the transformed equation has characteristic roots , whereFor a consistent explicit branch chooseThis branch is even in . Away from the two thresholds, the spatial solution is , so Fourier inversion givesAt , the spatial equation has a double zero characteristic root and its full solution is . The two exponentials at represent only its constant part. This isolated-frequency issue does not change an integral with ordinary integrable amplitudes; threshold-supported distributional modes require separate treatment.
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