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Re: is this solvable?

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• Subject: [mg56599] Re: is this solvable?
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:27:08 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

there is no general solution, because you have two 
unknowns and only one equation.

Regards
  Jens

<ames_kin at yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> a'[t] + b'[t]== -p1 a[t] - p2 b[t]
>
> where {a[0]== a0, b[0]== b0}
>
> is this solvable in Mathematica? If so, how will 
> I go about doing so?
>
> let's assume a[0]== a0, and b[0]==b0
>
> if symbolic solution isn't possible, then intial 
> conditions of
> a[0]== 1, and b[0]==0.5 couild be used...(or any 
> other numbers for that
> matter)
>
> thanks in advance.
>