7.4 problem Exercise 20.5, page 220

Internal problem ID [4067]

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 20.5, page 220.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {6 y^{\prime \prime }-11 y^{\prime }+4 y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

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

dsolve(6*diff(y(x),x$2)-11*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {x}{2}}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {4 x}{3}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 35

DSolve[y''[x]-11*y'[x]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to e^{-\frac {1}{2} \left (\sqrt {105}-11\right ) x} \left (c_2 e^{\sqrt {105} x}+c_1\right ) \\ \end{align*}