1.3 problem Problem 9

Internal problem ID [2080]

Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section: Chapter 1, First-Order Differential Equations. Section 1.2, Basic Ideas and Terminology. page 21
Problem number: Problem 9.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }-2 y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-2 x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[y''[x]+y'[x]-2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 e^{-2 x}+c_2 e^x \\ \end{align*}