Bounday-Value Problem: Eigenvalue and Eigenfunctions

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Homework Statement


This is the original question:
[tex]\frac{d^{2}y}{dx^{2}}-\frac{6x}{3x^{2}+1}\frac{dy}{dx}+\lambda(3x^{2}+1)^{2}y=0[/tex]

(Hint: Let t=[tex]x^{3}+x[/tex])
y(0)=0
y([tex]\pi[/tex])=02. The attempt at a solution
This might be all wrong, but this is all I can think of
[tex]\frac{dt}{dx}=3x^{2}+1[/tex]

so [tex]\frac{d^{2}y}{dx^{2}}-\frac{6x}{\frac{dt}{dx}}\frac{dy}{dx}+\lambda(\frac{dt}{dx})^{2}y=0[/tex]After this, I do not know how to proceed to eliminate [tex]d^{2}y/dx^{2}[/tex], much less what else to do. Help!
Thank you very much for your time,
-PhysicsFan24
 
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holy **** bro are you in my class, MIAMI DADE DEs?? LOL and were both on here lookin 4 help here.

check out my thread, its the whole paper lol. yo you got the answers for any of the others??
 
Umm, I'm in U of Virgina and this is an online HW question... Yes I am taking ODE. You're in my class?
 
nevermind. I am in Miami Florida. But I got the same question as you at the same time. One hell of a coincidence. Let me know if you find the answer, and you can check my thread too, I got the same question posted on there.