10.16 problem 16

Internal problem ID [698]

Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section: Chapter 3, Second order linear equations, section 3.6, Variation of Parameters. page 190
Problem number: 16.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {\left (-t +1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+t y^{\prime }-y-2 \left (t -1\right )^{2} {\mathrm e}^{-t}=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 23

dsolve((1-t)*diff(y(t),t$2)+t*diff(y(t),t)-y(t) = 2*(t-1)^2*exp(-t),y(t), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (t ) = c_{2} t +c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{t}-\frac {\left (2 t -1\right ) {\mathrm e}^{-t}}{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.036 (sec). Leaf size: 30

DSolve[(1-t)*y''[t]+t*y'[t]-y[t] == 2*(t-1)^2*Exp[-t],y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(t)\to e^{-t} \left (\frac {1}{2}-t\right )+c_1 e^t-c_2 t \\ \end{align*}