LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

MTH 304 - Differential Equations
Online Quiz 3, Spring 2021
Duration: 30 minutes
You should complete your work before 09:05

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1. [12 Points]
Solve the differential equation y 00 sin(3x) + 9y sin(3x) = 1
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2. [12 Points]

(a) Find the general solution to the third-order differential equation y 000 − 4y 0 = 0.
(b) Find a particular solution to the differential equation y 000 − 4y 0 = t + e−2t by extending the
method of undetermined coefficients to the case of third-order differential equations.

3. [16 Points]
Let the differential equation xy 00 + 3y = 0.

(a) What are the ordinary points of the differential equation?

(b) Use the change of variable t = x − 1 to rewrite the differential equation as a second-order
differential equation involving t and y(t).
(c) Find a power series solution of the differential equation you obtained in part (b) about
t0 = 0. Find the first five terms only.
(d) Guess a power series solution to the differential equation xy 00 + 3y = 0 of the form y =
∞
X
an (x − 1)n (the first five terms only).
n=0