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15.2 LINEAR EQUATIONS WITH VARIABLE COEFFICIENTSwe are free to choose our constraints as we wish, let us define the expression inparentheses to be zero, giving the first equation in (15.55). Differentiating againwe findy p ′′ = k 1 y 1 ′′ + k 2 y 2 ′′ + ···+ k n y n ′′ +[k 1y ′ 1 ′ + k 2y ′ 2 ′ + ···+ k ny ′ n ′ ].Once more we can choose the expression in brackets to be zero, giving the secondequation in (15.55). We can repeat this procedure, choosing the correspondingexpression in each case to be zero. This yields the first n − 1 equations in (15.55).The mth derivative of y p <strong>for</strong> m

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