Closed-form solutions for the quadratic mixed-parity nonlinear oscillator

Abstract

Closed-form exact solutions for periodic motions of a nonlinear oscillator, which contains a quadratic mixed-parity restoring force, are derived analytically. This oscillator is characterised by two real parameters, which are the coefficients of the linear and the quadratic terms, and has single-well potential. All possible combinations of positive and negative values of these coefficients providing periodic motions are considered, and two families of exact solutions are obtained in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions. The periods are given in terms of the complete elliptic integral of the first kind, the behaviour of these periods as a function of the initial amplitude is analysed, and the exact solutions for certain values of these parameters are plotted.