Example 10. The
initial displacement for a fundamental solution
is
.
Plot the functions for n =
1,2,3.
The first fundamental solution vibrates up and down throughout the
entire disk of radius 1.
Solution 10.
The first fundamental solution has a circle of
radius
as a node where there is no vibration and it moves up and down inside
this circle.
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_523.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_523.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_524.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_524.gif)
The second fundamental solution has a circle of
radius
as a node where there is no vibration and it moves up and down in
opposite directions on the inside and outside of this circle.
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_527.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_527.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_528.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_528.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_530.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_530.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_531.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_531.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_533.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_533.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_534.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_534.gif)
The third fundamental solution has a two circular nodes of
radius
and
where
there is no vibration and it moves up and down in opposite directions
between circles.
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_538.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_538.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_539.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_539.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_541.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_541.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_542.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_542.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_544.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_544.gif)
![[Graphics:../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_545.gif]](../Images/FrobeniusSeriesMod_gr_545.gif)
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