I am having some difficulty animating the function shown in the attached file.  I am going to create an animation which will show the curve as a function of t.  My first question is that there is no way to compute K_n because the initial conditions I have are only given as arbritary functions F(z),G(z).  So I am not really sure how to proceed here.

My second question is that I also want to plot the Z dependent part of y as a function of z/b.  I have tried to incorporate this into Maple, however, all I get back is that there are 'unexpected variables present'

Thanks.

Consider the differential equation zZ'' + Z' + a²Z = 0,  where Z = Z(z).  Using the change of variables x = \sqrt{z/b}with b a constant,  obtain the differential equation Z'' + (1/x)Z' + c²Z = 0, where Z = Z(x) and c = 2a \sqrt{b}.

I tried Maple help and it offers the dchange command, and what I have tried is shown below;

with(PDEtools):

DE:= ...

tr:= {z = x²b}

dchange(tr, DE)

This did not return anything however.  I am thinking I need to specify that b is a constant, however, I am a little unsure on how to do this. Is the above the correct way to proceed?  I don't see how I have specified anywhere that in the final PDE, I require Z=Z(x).

Thanks for any help.  This is my first post here, so apologies for the typesetting. If there is inbuilt latex, I will use it next time.