Paper 4, Section II, B
Show that
is a solution to the equation
and obtain the first two terms in the asymptotic expansion of as .
For , define a new dependent variable , and show that if solves the preceding equation then
Obtain the Liouville-Green approximate solutions to this equation for large positive , and compare with your asymptotic expansion for at the leading order.
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