One of the following is a general solution of the homogeneous differential equation
and one of the following is a solution to the nonhomogeneous equation By superposition, the general solution of the equation is
Find the solution with
Being the highly trained differential equations fighting machine that I am, I checked the Wronskian (using the solutions to the homogeneous equation without the coefficients a and b) for good measure, and found it to be
. The fundamental theorem tells me that that this is the unique solution to the IVP on the interval
.
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