Internal problem ID [4124]
Book: Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section: Chapter 4. Higher order linear differential equations. Lesson 22. Variation of Parameters
Problem number: Exercise 22.3, page 240.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+y-\sec \left (x \right )^{2}=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 23
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+y(x)=sec(x)^2,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{2} \sin \left (x \right )+c_{1} \cos \left (x \right )+\ln \left (\sec \left (x \right )+\tan \left (x \right )\right ) \sin \left (x \right )-1 \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 27
DSolve[y''[x]+y[x]==Sec[x]^2,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to \sin (x) \left (2 \text {arctanh}\left (\tan \left (\frac {x}{2}\right )\right )+c_2\right )+c_1 \cos (x)-1 \\ \end{align*}