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Understanding a Time Integral for x1 and x2
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[QUOTE="Mark44, post: 5788732, member: 147785"] Your solution looks fine to me, although it's more complicated than it needs to be with all the subscripts. For simplicity in writing, I'm going to rephrase your problem: x' = 0 y' = tx Here, both x and y are functions of t. Since x' = 0, then ##x = k_1##, for some constant ##k_1##. After substitution into the second equation, you get ##y = \frac 1 2 k_1t^2 + k_2## It's always a good idea to verify that your solution actually works, by substituting back into the original system of equations. Since there are no initial conditions given (or at least shown here), we're done. Note that this is a very simple system of differential equations, one that can be "uncoupled" by substitution. More complicated systems, in which each derivative is in terms of the other function, require much more complicated techniques. [/QUOTE]
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