Description of The Method
Consider a linear non-homogeneous ordinary differential equation of the form
The method consists of finding the general homogeneous solution for the complementary linear homogeneous differential equation
and a particular integral of the linear non-homogeneous ordinary differential equation based on . Then the general solution to the linear non-homogeneous ordinary differential equation would be
If consists of the sum of two functions and we say that is the solution based on and the solution based on . Then, using a superposition principle, we can say that the particular integral is
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