Internal problem ID [4064]
Book: Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section: Chapter 4. Higher order linear differential equations. Lesson 20. Constant coefficients
Problem number: Exercise 20.1, page 220.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]
Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime }=0} \end {gather*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 12
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+2*diff(y(x),x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-2 x} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.011 (sec). Leaf size: 19
DSolve[y''[x]+2*y'[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_2-\frac {1}{2} c_1 e^{-2 x} \\ \end{align*}