2.23 problem Problem 3(a)

Internal problem ID [10896]

Book: APPLIED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS The Primary Course by Vladimir A. Dobrushkin. CRC Press 2015
Section: Chapter 4, Second and Higher Order Linear Differential Equations. Problems page 221
Problem number: Problem 3(a).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+4 y^{\prime }+y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 26

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{\left (-2+\sqrt {3}\right ) x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-\left (2+\sqrt {3}\right ) x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 34

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to e^{-\left (\left (2+\sqrt {3}\right ) x\right )} \left (c_2 e^{2 \sqrt {3} x}+c_1\right ) \\ \end{align*}