Example 5 A 3 kg object is attached to spring and will stretch the spring 392 mm by itself.

There is no damping in the system and a forcing function of the form

is attached to the object and the system will experience resonance. If the object is initially displaced 20 cm downward from its equilibrium position and given a velocity of 10 cm/sec upward find the displacement at any time t. Solution Since we are in the metric system we wont need to find mass as its been given to us. Also, for all calculations well be converting all lengths over to meters. The first thing we need to do is find k.

Now, we are told that the system experiences resonance so lets go ahead and get the natural frequency so we can completely set up the IVP.

The IVP for this is then

Solution wise there isnt a whole lot to do here. The complimentary solution is the free undamped solution which is easy to get and for the particular solution we can just use the formula that we derived above. The general solution is then,

Applying the initial conditions gives the displacement at any time t. Well leave the details to you to check.