8.18 problem 24

Internal problem ID [640]

Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section: Chapter 3, Second order linear equations, 3.3 Complex Roots of the Characteristic Equation , page 164
Problem number: 24.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {5 u^{\prime \prime }+2 u^{\prime }+7 u=0} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [u \left (0\right ) = 2, u^{\prime }\left (0\right ) = 1] \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.047 (sec). Leaf size: 32

dsolve([5*diff(u(x),x$2)+ 2*diff(u(x),x)+7*u(x) = 0,u(0) = 2, D(u)(0) = 1],u(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ u \left (x \right ) = \frac {{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x}{5}} \left (7 \sqrt {34}\, \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {34}\, x}{5}\right )+68 \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {34}\, x}{5}\right )\right )}{34} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 48

DSolve[{5*u''[x]+2*u'[x]+7*u[x]==0,{u[0]==2,u'[0]==1}},u[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} u(x)\to \frac {1}{34} e^{-x/5} \left (7 \sqrt {34} \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {34} x}{5}\right )+68 \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {34} x}{5}\right )\right ) \\ \end{align*}