5.6 problem 6

Internal problem ID [4288]

Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley. 2006
Section: Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 5. SECOND-ORDER LINEAR EQUATIONSWITH CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS AND ZERO RIGHT-HAND SIDE. page 414
Problem number: 6.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+16 y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+16*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} \sin \left (4 x \right )+c_{2} \cos \left (4 x \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[y''[x]+16*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 \cos (4 x)+c_2 \sin (4 x) \\ \end{align*}