Not understand online notes on the Green function

[fluidistic]

Homework Statement

I'm trying to self study Green function and I can't follow the very last step of a demonstration in an online notes (that I attach in this post). Page 7 to 8.
Basically he says that from G_{tt}(t,t')+\omega G(t,t')=0 for all t>t' with the conditions G(t,t'+\varepsilon)=0 and G_{t} (t,t'+\varepsilon)=1 when \varepsilon tends to 0. One can "easily" find out that G(t,t')=\frac{1}{\omega }\sin [\omega (t-t')].
My question is how do you find this out? I have no idea.

Homework Equations

No idea!

The Attempt at a Solution

100% clueless.

 

[MathWarrior]

Have you tried watching these:

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/green-s-theorem-proof-part-1?topic=calculus

Theirs 2 parts to the proof on khan academy and 2 examples.

 

[vela]

There's a typo in his notes. The differential equation should be $y''(t) + \omega^2 y(t) = 0$. Considering what I've seen in your other threads, I find it hard to believe you don't know how to solve this ordinary differential equation with the given initial conditions.

Perhaps it's the notation that's throwing you off. Just think of t' as a parameter.

 

[fluidistic]

There's a typo in his notes. The differential equation should be $y''(t) + \omega^2 y(t) = 0$. Considering what I've seen in your other threads, I find it hard to believe you don't know how to solve this ordinary differential equation with the given initial conditions.

Perhaps it's the notation that's throwing you off. Just think of t' as a parameter.

Ok thanks, this makes the 3rd typo on this same page (I emailed him for the 2 others I saw and he replied with a thank you message).
I realize I misunderstood the initial conditions and consequently miswrote them here.

He uses the notation (for simplicity only) G(t,t')=y(t). So I am lead to think that when he writes y(t') = 0 he means G(t',t')=0? Shouldn't it be G(0,t')=0?
I'm totally confused.

 

[vela]

Just consider t' to be fixed. Its value partitions the number line into two regions: t<t' and t>t'. What he did was solve the homogeneous equation to find a solution y₁(t), valid for t<t', and a solution y₂(t), valid for t>t'. There were initial conditions given for t<t', namely y(0)=0 and y'(0)=0, so he used those to pin down what y₁(t) equaled for t<t'. Then by integrating the differential equation across the boundary, he derived what the initial conditions are for y₂(t) — in other words, what y₂(t') and y'₂(t') equal.

Earlier, he wrote y₂(t) = B sin ω(t-t₁). Here, B and t₁ are the arbitrary constants you get when you solve a second-order differential equation. You want to find B and t₁ so that y₂(t') = 0 and y'₂(t') = 1.

 

[fluidistic]

Thank you very much vela. I now solved the problem using his notation and also keeping G(t,t&#039;) instead of y(t).
I reach the result G(t,t&#039;)=0 for t&lt;t&#039; and G(t,t&#039;)=\frac{\sin [\omega (t-t&#039;)] }{\omega } for t&gt;t&#039; as it should.