Second Order Differential Equations
www.mathsisfun.com › calculus › differentialSecond Order Differential Equations. We can solve a second order differential equation of the type: d2y dx2 + P (x) dy dx + Q (x)y = f (x) where P (x), Q (x) and f (x) are functions of x, by using: Variation of Parameters which only works when f (x) is a polynomial, exponential, sine, cosine or a linear combination of those.