January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
27h 45m
English
We now introduce a powerful method for constructing the general solution of a homogeneous first-order system with constant coefficients,
By Theorem 3 of Section 7.2, we know that it suffices to find n linearly independent solution vectors ; the linear combination
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with arbitrary coefficients will then be a general solution of the system in (1).
To search for the n needed linearly independent solution vectors, we proceed by analogy with the characteristic root method for solving a single ...
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