Timeline for In the undriven $RLC$ circuit, why would one conjecture the solution with $Ae^{Zt}$ when we perfectly know that critical case has $te^{-\alpha t}$?

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Dec 2 at 18:18	history	edited	niobium		edited tags
Dec 2 at 18:09	comment	added	Octavius		It doesn't match. Instead it matches the first term (the one with $\lambda_1$). He used the ansatz (!) $Ae^{Zt}$ in order to find a (!) solution (which he found). The solution you provided is then the full solution, consisting of two linearly independent solutions.
Dec 2 at 18:04	answer	added	ClearlyIncompetentGuy		timeline score: 4
Dec 2 at 17:56	history	edited	niobium	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 2 characters in body
Dec 2 at 17:34	history	asked	niobium	CC BY-SA 4.0