Linearizing it around
where
The reason I am getting this system is because I am considering
where
Step 1
I agree with the linearisation of the second equation. For the first, you are close but not quite correct. To find the linearisation around , substitute and into your equations and throw out everything that isn't order . I got:
Step 2
Thus, the linearised equation is (dropping the tildes):
.
Edit: Answer to question in the comments. Let be steady state solutions to your system. Replacing p with the equation for p becomes:
which implies the linearised equation is
(not surprising since the original equation was linear). For the equation for replace and p with and respectively:
Step 3
using that is the steady state solution. Thus, the linearised equation is:
Find
Finding the extrema of a functional (calculus of variations)
Explanation:
Which gives the Euler equation (I think, unless I messed up my math).
Ok now I need to try to find solutions to this differential equation, however, I only know how to solve linear second order DE's. The x term is throwing me off and I am not sure how to solve this.
I know is a solution by inspection, but inspection is a poor man's approach to solving DE's.