Problem Statement
Solve the initial value problem. State which rule you are using.
Show each step of your calculation in detail.
(K 2011 pg.85 #13)
(1)
Initial conditions are:

Solution
The general solution of the homogeneous ordinary differential equation is

We can use this information to determine the characteristic equation:

And proceeding to find the roots,

Thus,
.
Solving for the roots, we find that 
where the general solution is
.
The solution of
of the non-homogeneous ordinary differential equation is
.
Using the Sum rule as described in Section 2.7, the above function translates into the following:
, where Table 2.1 tells us that:
and
.
Therefore,
.
Now, we can substitute the values (
) into (1) to get:



Now that we have this equation, we can equate coefficients to find that:



and thus, 
We find that the general solution is in fact:


whereas the general solution of the given ordinary differential equation is actually:

Solving for the initial conditions given and first plugging in
, we get that:



. (2)
And now we can determine the first order ODE :

The second initial condition that was given to us,
can now be plugged in:




(3)
Once we solve (2) and (3), we can get the values:
.
And once we substitute these values, we get the following solution for this IVP:
(K 2011 pg.85 #14)
(1)
Initial conditions are:

Solution
The general solution of the homogeneous ordinary differential equation is

We can use this information to determine the characteristic equation:

And proceeding to find the roots,

Solving for the roots, we find that 
where the general solution is:
, or:

Now, according to the Modification Rule and Table 2.1 in Section 2.7, we know that we have to multiply by x to get:
, since the solution of
is a double root of the characteristic equation.
We can then derive to get
:


Deriving once again to solve for
, we get the following:



Now, we can substitute the values (
) into (1) to get:


Now that we have this equation, we can equate coefficients to find that:
and 
and finally discover that:
and
.
Plugging in these values in
, we find that:

And finally, we arrive at the general solution of the given ordinary differential equation:


Solving for the initial conditions given and first plugging in
, we get that:



The second initial condition that was given to us,
can now be plugged in:



And once we substitute these values, we get the following solution for this IVP: