Solving Vibrating Spring Problem Using Variational Formulation

Integral equations appeared and used in various applied areas as important as differential equations but the integral formulations are more elegant and compact than the differential formulations due to the accuracy of solutions that obtained from the integral equations [3]. The present study works in solving Volterra integral equation directly using variational approach (Magri app) [1,9]. Moreover, a new approach will used for solving vibrating spring equation, this as an application to Magri approach. That physical phenomena of solids in free vibration is that the vibration of the solid induced by an instantaneous disturbance either in the form of a force or deformation of the supporting spring. The kinetic energy is stored in the movement of a mass where the measure of this movement is the velocity of the system and the continuous interchange between potential and kinetic energy is the vibration of the system [4,7,13].


Introduction
Integral equations appeared and used in various applied areas as important as differential equations but the integral formulations are more elegant and compact than the differential formulations due to the accuracy of solutions that obtained from the integral equations [3]. The present study works in solving Volterra integral equation directly using variational approach (Magri app) [1,9]. Moreover, a new approach will used for solving vibrating spring equation, this as an application to Magri approach. That physical phenomena of solids in free vibration is that the vibration of the solid induced by an instantaneous disturbance either in the form of a force or deformation of the supporting spring. The kinetic energy is stored in the movement of a mass where the measure of this movement is the velocity of the system and the continuous interchange between potential and kinetic energy is the vibration of the system [4,7,13].

Integral Equations
An integral equation is an equation in which the unknown function ( ) to be determined appears under the integral sign. A typical form of an integral equation in f(s) is of the form, Where (s,t) is called the kernel of the integral equation, the function ɣ (s) is called the driving term, ( ) and ( ) are the limits of integration and may be both variables, constants or mixed. It is easily observed that the unknown function f(s) appears under the integral sign as stated above, and out of the integral sign in most other cases. Integral equations arise naturally in physics, chemistry, biology and engineering applications modelled by initial value problems for a finite interval [a, b]. More details about the sources and origins of integral equations and as well how the initial value problem be converted to the form of integral equations can be found in [15]. Other problem whose direct representation in terms of differential equation and their auxiliary conditions may also be decreasing to integral equation [16].
Our goal is to classify integral equations, the kernel function in integral equations and to determine f(s) that will satisfy (2.1). according to Magri approach.

Types of Integral Equations
According to the limits of integrations, the driving terms and the kernel, Arfken [4] gave a simple classification for integral equations, as follows: 1. If the limits of integration are fixed, the equation is called Fredholm integral equation, whereas if one of these limits is variable, then the equation will be Volterra integral equation. 2. If the unknown function appears only under the integral sing, we shall label it, first kind. While if it appears both inside and outside the integral sing, it will be labeled as, second kind. Symbolically, we write the Fredholm integral equation of the first kind and second kind respectively as follows: ɣ ( ) = λ ∫ ( , t ( ( ) , ( ) = ɣ ( ) + λ ∫ ( , t ) ( ) Whereas the Volterra integral equation of the first, second kind will be written respectively as: ɣ ( ) = ∫ ( , ) ( ) , ( ) = ɣ ( ) + ∫ ( , ) ( ) For more types, see [3,2,4].

Classification of the Kernel of Integral Equations: [6]
As mentioned earlier, the role of the known bivariate function k (s,t) is quite significant both from the problem and its solution point-of-view. Mainly, we shall come across with the following classification of the kernel of the integral equations: 1. The kernel k(s, t) is said to be symmetric (complex symmetric or Hermitian) if ( , ) = ̅ ( , ) (where the bar represents the complex conjugate). A real kernel is symmetric if ( , ) = ( , ). 2. The kernel k (s,t) is called separable or degenerate kernel which means that k has been expressed as the sum of a finite number of terms, each of which is the product of function of s only and t only, . Obviously, (s) and ɣ ( ) are linearly independent (or else some of the terms will combine, and consequently, the number of terms will reduce). A degenerate kernel has a finite number of characteristic values. 3. The kernel of the form ( , ) = ( -)is called a difference kernel since it depends solely on the difference (st).

The Connection between Differential and Integral Equations: [5]
There is a close connection between these kinds of equations many initial and boundary value problems can formulated as integral equations and vice versa. In general, the initial problems, dynamical systems and boundary value problem can be formulated as Volterra and Fredholm integral equations respectively.

Definition 1: (Linear Operator) [3]
A functional is an operator whose range lies on the real line R or in the complex Ȼ. A functional on a linear space is called linear if for any 1 , 2 ∈ U and any scalar we have: 1.

Definition 2 (Bilinear Form) [12]:
A functional ( , ) depending on , ∈ is said to be bilinear form, if it satisfies the following properties for ∈ and ∈ :
For many examples of non-degenerates bilinear forms see [11].

Theorem: [1]
For a given symmetric linear operator L with respect to the chosen bilinear form < , >, the solutions of the equation L = are the critical points of the functional: F[ ] = < L , L > − < , > Proof: see [3].

Approximated Solutions for Integral Equations
Because of that some integral equations, particularly in non-homogeneous or non-linear cases, are not easy to analytically solve, an approximate method is needed. For solving Fredholm and Volterra integral equations, there are several normal approximate methods, see [3,8]. We addressed the use of variational formulation to solve Volterra integral equations in this paper.

Example 1:
Consider the following Volterra integral equation: , where its analytic solution is:

Vibrating Spring Equation
Phenomenon of vibration is the exchange of energy between potential (power) and kinetic (resuiting from motion) energy. Therefore, a vibrating system must have a component that stores potential energy. This component must also be capable of releasing the energy as kinetic energy. The simplest physical model for forced vibration is a simple mass-spring system subjected to an exciting force F(t) where t (time variable): The differential equation for the instantaneous amplitudes of the vibrating mass under the influence of force F(t) becomes: Equation (4.1) is a nonhomogeneous 2nd order differential equation As an application of variational formulation that is related to integral equation in physics is that the vibrating spring equation., for example, as follows [14] : This result shortens a lot of efforts and time for programming rather than solving the required problem, since using the linear system is easier for programming, as differential equation where the solution is difficult. Moreover, using the linear system is easier for programming in order to solve it's physics equation vibrating spring equation.