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Re: DSolve Not Working

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  • Subject: [mg44937] Re: DSolve Not Working
  • From: "extrabyte" <extrabyte22 at libero.it>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:01:42 -0500 (EST)
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Will Oram wrote:
[snip]
> In: DSolve[y''[x]==ay'[x]+y[x],y,x]
> DSolve::dvnoarg: The function y appears with no arguments
> Out: DSolve[y''[x]==(ay)/x+y[x],y,x]
>
> Wha?

In[1]=sol[a_] :=DSolve[y''[x] == a y'[x] + y[x], y[x], x]

In[2]=f[x_, a_] := y[x] /. sol[a][[1]]

In[3]=f[x,a]

Out[3]=Exp[0.5*(a-Sqrt[4+a^2])x]C[1]+Exp[0.5*(a+Sqrt[4+a^2])x]C[2]


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