Partial Fraction Expansion and Laplace Transform

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I have some problem with my equation: $$y''+5y = 5e^{-5t} $$

And we got that y(0) = 1 and y'(0) = 2

It's too much to write but what I get is: $$ \frac{e^{-5t}}{6}+1.516676089\cdot \cos(0.989 - \sqrt{5}t)$$ This works with first value y(0)=1 but doesn't work with y'(0).

Btw, where are supposed to use the complex roots and not the easy way with PFE, already solved this if used regular PFE.

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Ignoring the Laplace transform, it's quite clear that the fundamental set of solutions to

$$y'' + 5y = 0$$

is

$$y_c = a_1 \sin \sqrt{5} t + a_2 \cos \sqrt{5} t$$

You can get the particular solution by just guessing

$$y_p = ae^{-5t}$$

Thus

$$y = a_1 \sin \sqrt{5} t + a_2 \cos \sqrt{5} t + a e^{-5t}$$

where you will find the coefficients by using the initial conditions, $y(0)=1$ and $y'(0) = 2$.