Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 ia Paper 2 1B Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
With , the chain rule gives . Since ,Substituting into the ordinary differential equation and multiplying by leaves , the harmonic oscillator equation. Its two independent real solutions are and . Undoing the change of variables givesThe constants are arbitrary real numbers. The reciprocal-coordinate reduction of a beam-type equation works on the entire positive half-line, where the coordinate transformation is invertible.