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Old July 27th, 2007, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by mathisfun1 View Post
The given equation is the Legendre equation and its solutions are the Legendre orthogonal polynomials (Legendre polynomials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). I'm not sure how to show the orthogonality of the solutions from scratch though (i.e. w/o Rodrigues's formula).
But Rodrigues' formula is the simplest way to go with it!

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