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Abram Boyd

Abram Boyd

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2022-06-19

My Problem is this given System of differential equations.
y 1 = 5 y 1 + 2 y 2 y 2 = 2 y 1 + y 2
My Approach was: again, i analyze, it must be a ordinary, linear System of equations, with both being of first-order. Than i built the corresponding Matrix as follows:
( y 1 y 2 ) y = ( 5 2 2 1 ) A ( y 1 y 2 ) y
that's why:
y = ( 5 2 2 1 ) y
Then I determined the eigenvalues:
they are r 1 = 3 and r 2 = 3
Knowing them, I can build the corresponding eigenvectors:
they are v 1 = ( 1 + 1 ) and v 2 = ( 0 0 )
Now i plug into the equation:
x = c 1 e r 1 t v 1 + c 2 e r 2 t v 2 x = c 1 e 3 t ( 1 1 ) + c 2 e 3 t ( 0 0 )
this lead to my result:
y 1 = c 1 e 3 t + 0 c 2 e 3 t y 2 = c 1 e 3 t + 0 c 2 e 3 t y 1 = c 1 e 3 t y 2 = c 1 e 3 t
But I doubt it's correct. My suspect are the eigenvectors, I really don't know if they are correct. And this could have lead to a wrong solution.

Answer & Explanation

Mateo Barajas

Mateo Barajas

Beginner2022-06-20Added 13 answers

Hint:
X ( t ) = A X ( t )
if you have repeated eigen value like c and v is eigen vector correspond to c then general solution is
X ( t ) = e c t v
and here solution is:
X ( t ) = c e 3 t ( 1 1 )

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