Reciprocal-coordinate reduction of a beam-type equation ($u=t[A\cos (\lambda /t)+B\sin (\lambda /t)]$)

For $t>0$, the change of variables $\tau =1/t$ and $u(t)=v(\tau )/\tau$ converts $t^4{u}^{\prime \prime }+{\lambda }^{2}u=0$ into $v^{\prime \prime }+{\lambda }^{2}v=0$. The chain rule gives $u^{\prime }=v-\tau v^{\prime }$ and $u^{\prime \prime }={\tau }^3{v}^{\prime \prime }$. Thus $u=t[A\cos (\lambda /t)+B\sin (\lambda /t)]$. The prefactor cancels the derivative term introduced by inverting the independent variable.