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Show all work necessary to arrive at your answers. A mass stretches a spring 2.4

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Question

Show all work necessary to arrive at your answers.

A mass stretches a spring 2.45-m whose spring constant is 8-N/m. The mass is initially released from the equilibrium position with a downward velocity of 1/25 m/s, and the subsequent motion takes place in a medium that offers a damping force that is numerically equal to 8 times the instantaneous velocity.

Find the equation of motion if the mass is driven by an external force equal to:
f(t)=2e-tcos2t



Write the correct Driven Motion Equation.



Write the above Differential Equation in Differential Operator Form.



Give the complementary function to the above DE xc(t)= ?



Give the particular solution to the Nonhomogeneous DE (use A and B for the undetermined coefficients)



Write the General Solution to the Equation of Motion

Explanation / Answer

We divide by 2 to get our equation in standard linear form:

x''+4x'+4x=0

To find both roots we guess the root emt. Differentiating emt twice gives us the following:

x = emt, x'=memt, x''=m2emt

We then substitute these into our original equation which gives:

x=emt(m2+4m+4)=0

Since the exponential cannot equal zero, we know:

m2+4m+4=0

(m+2)2 = 0

We only get one root from this: m=-2, so we have the first solution of the auxillery equation:

xc1=C1e-2t

To find the 2nd solution, we multiply this through by t:

xc2=C2te-2t

So our complementery solution is:

xc= C1e-2t + C2te-2t

Now the problem wants us to find a differential annihilator to eliminate F(t)=2e-tcos(2t)

The annihilator that gets rid of eaxcos(Bx) is (D2-2aD+(a2+B2))

Remember if F(t) had been in the proper position in the original ODE, the two would have been divided out, so we are really working with the function: F(t)=e-tcos(2t)

So, our anihillator operator is: (D2+2D+5)

We equate this to zero to find the roots of our particular solution:

D2+2D+5=0

D2+2D = -5

(D+1)2=-4

D = -1 +/- 2i

Which gives the following particular solution:

xp = e-t( Acos(2t) + Bsin(2t) )

Now we find the first and second derivative of the particular solution:

x'p = - e-t( Acos(2t) + Bsin(2t) ) + e-t( -2Asin(2t) + 2Bcos(2t) )

x''p = e-t( Acos(2t) + Bsin(2t) ) - e-t( -2Asin(2t) + 2Bcos(2t) ) - e-t( -2Asin(2t) + 2Bcos(2t) ) + e-t( -4Acos(2t) - 4Bsin(2t) )

Now, to find A and B, we substitute these into our general equation x''+4x'+4=e-tcos(2t)

e-t( Acos(2t) + Bsin(2t) ) - e-t( -2Asin(2t) + 2Bcos(2t) ) - e-t( -2Asin(2t) + 2Bcos(2t) ) + e-t( -4Acos(2t) - 4Bsin(2t) ) - e-t( 4Acos(2t) + 4Bsin(2t) ) + e-t( -8Asin(2t) + 8Bcos(2t) ) + e-t( 4Acos(2t) + 4Bsin(2t) ) = e-tcos(2t)

Pull out e^-t:

e-t( Acos(2t) + Bsin(2t) + 2Asin(2t) - 2Bcos(2t) + 2Asin(2t) - 2Bcos(2t) - 4Acos(2t) - 4Bsin(2t) - 4Acos(2t) - 4Bsin(2t) - 8Asin(2t) + 8Bcos(2t) + 4Acos(2t) + 4Bsin(2t) ) = e-tcos(2t)

Group Cosines and Sines, and A's and B's:

e-t( Acos(2t) - 4Acos(2t) - 4Acos(2t) + 4Acos(2t) - 2Bcos(2t) - 2Bcos(2t) + 8Bcos(2t) + 2Asin(2t) + 2Asin(2t) - 8Asin(2t) + Bsin(2t) - 4Bsin(2t) - 4Bsin(2t)   + 4Bsin(2t) ) = e-tcos(2t)

Simplify:

e-t( -3Acos(2t) + 4Bcos(2t) - 4Asin(2t) - 3Bsin(2t) ) = e-tcos(2t)

Now we have the general set of equations:

-3A+4B = 1

-4A-3B = 0

Therefore

A= -3/25

B= 4/25

Now our general solution is:

xg= C1e-2t + C2te-2t + e-t( -.12cos(2t) + .16sin(2t) )

Now we solve for our first initial condition, x(0)=0

Which gives this equation:

0 = C1 - .12

C1 = .12

Substitute in to the original equation and take the derivative to solve for the 2nd initial condition x'(0)=1/25

xg= .12e-2t + C2te-2t + e-t( -.12cos(2t) + .16sin(2t) )

x'g= -.24e-2t -2C2te-2t + C2e-2t - e-t( -.12cos(2t) + .16sin(2t) ) + e-t( .24sin(2t) + .32cos(2t) )

x'g(0)= -.24 + C2 - .12 + .32 = 1/25

C2=1/25

Now we have the final equation of motion:

xg= .12e-2t + .04(t)e-2t + e-t( -.12cos(2t) + .16sin(2t) )