2.23. Reduce to canonical form by rotating the coordinate
system. What is the angle the coordinate system must be rotated
over?
2.24.
Using the class formulae, completely convert the full problem 2.24
to the new coordinates.
2.25, give the full equation
Get rid of the first order derivatives in the problem 2.25 by
defining a new unknown
where
are the rescaled coordinates and ,
, and are constants to be found from the condition
that the first order derivatives disappear.