Use Abel's identity to find the Wronskian

[Fatima Hasan]

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[Mark44]

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Is my answer correct ?

It looks like you lost the minus sign in the second line that starts with W(x).

 

[Fatima Hasan]

It looks like you lost the minus sign in the second line that starts with W(x)

$P(x) = -4x^2$
$W(x) = C exp( - ∫ P(x) dx )$
$W(x) = C exp ( - ∫ - 4x^2 dx)$
$= C exp (∫ 4x^2 dx)$