Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability-resit/4/b/solution

Seek a particular solution . Substitution into the linear ordinary differential equation gives , so . Add the complementary solution from part (a):
The two prescribed values yield and . Thus , so and . Therefore
Direct substitution gives and , and the homogeneous solution contributes zero to the left-hand differential operator.

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