Volume no :10, Issue no: 1, August (2013)

INTEGRABILITY CASES FOR THE ANHARMONIC OSCILLATOR EQUATION

Author's: TIBERIU HARKO, FRANCISCO S. N. LOBO and M. K. MAK
Pages: [115] - [129]
Received Date: May 16, 2013
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Abstract

Using Euler’s theorem on the integrability of the general anharmonic oscillator equation [1], we present three distinct classes of general solutions of the highly nonlinear second order ordinary differential equation The first exact solution is obtained from a particular solution of the point transformed equation which is equivalent to the anharmonic oscillator equation, if the coefficients satisfy an integrability condition. The integrability condition can be formulated as a Riccati equation for and respectively. By reducing the integrability condition to a Bernoulli type equation, two exact classes of solutions of the anharmonic oscillator equation are obtained.

Keywords

anharmonic oscillations, integrability conditions, exact solutions.