A New Approach for Solving the Complex Cubic-Quintic Duffing Oscillator Equation for Given Arbitrary Initial Conditions

Abstract

The nonlinear differential equation governing the periodic motion of the one-dimensional, undamped, and unforced cubic-quintic Duffing oscillator is solved exactly, providing exact expressions for the period and the solution. The period as well as the exact analytic solution is given in terms of the famous Weierstrass elliptic function. An integrable case of a damped cubic-quintic equation is presented. Mathematica code for solving both cubic and cubic-quintic Duffing equations is given in Appendix at the end.