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Solutions of are exactly the functions
Statement
Let , let be an interval with at least two points (Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length), let , and let be twice differentiable with
Here twice differentiable means that and are differentiable at every point of in the domain-relative sense of The derivative of at a point that is a limit point of , and differentiability on a set; , with one-sided limits at included endpoints.
Then there are reals with
Conversely, for all reals the function is twice differentiable on and satisfies there.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A real , an interval with at least two points, a point , and a twice differentiable with on .
Sine and cosine are differentiable with and ; the chain rule differentiates the compositions , with derivatives and (The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine, The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then is differentiable at with ).
Sums, products and constant multiples of differentiable functions are differentiable with the usual rules (Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when ).
A function continuous on whose derivative vanishes at every interior point of is constant on (A function continuous on an interval whose derivative vanishes at every interior point of is constant on ; consequently two such functions with the same derivative differ by a constant).
identically (Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine).
Proof
Write and define on . Every factor is differentiable (including , by the twice differentiable hypothesis), so and are differentiable by [L2].
Differentiating and using : and likewise on .
By [L3] and step 1.2 there are reals with and on .
Multiplying out and using [L4], on ; hence , which is the asserted representation.
Conversely, if , then [L1] and [L2] give and on , so .
Depends on
Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
The derivative of at a point that is a limit point of , and differentiability on a set
The derivatives of sine and cosine are cosine and minus sine
Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when
The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then is differentiable at with
A function continuous on an interval whose derivative vanishes at every interior point of is constant on ; consequently two such functions with the same derivative differ by a constant
Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine
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Sources
- David Tong, Classical Dynamics (University of Cambridge), §2.6, printed pp. 38-44: small oscillations and the oscillatory solution with frequency squared $\omega^2$
- Konstantin Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics: Classical Mechanics, Ch. 2 small oscillations: the second-order linear oscillator and its general sinusoidal solution