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Solution y(x,t) -

We require a two-variable function to specify a solution for the string. This is because a solution should give the degrees of freedom at any time t. If we wish to know the degrees of freedom y(x) at time tex2html_wrap_inline847 , we can get these from a function y(x,t) by substituting the value of the time and generating a formula for y(x): tex2html_wrap_inline1123 .



Tomas Arias
Mon Oct 15 16:15:07 EDT 2001