5.2 problem 2

Internal problem ID [857]

Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 11th ed., Boyce, DiPrima, Meade
Section: Chapter 6.5, The Laplace Transform. Impulse functions. page 273
Problem number: 2.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+4 y-\left (\delta \left (-\pi +t \right )\right )+\delta \left (-2 \pi +t \right )=0} \end {gather*} With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \relax (0) = 0, y^{\prime }\relax (0) = 0] \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 25

dsolve([diff(y(t),t$2)+4*y(t)=Dirac(t-Pi)-Dirac(t-2*Pi),y(0) = 0, D(y)(0) = 0],y(t), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (t ) = -\frac {\left (\theta \left (-2 \pi +t \right )-\theta \left (-\pi +t \right )\right ) \sin \left (2 t \right )}{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 25

DSolve[{y''[t]+4*y[t]==DiracDelta[t-Pi]-DiracDelta[t-2*Pi],{y[0]==0,y'[0]==0}},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(t)\to (\theta (t-\pi )-\theta (t-2 \pi )) \sin (t) \cos (t) \\ \end{align*}