Internal problem ID [5095]
Book: THEORY OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS. K.T.
CHAU, CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 2018
Section: Chapter 3. Ordinary Differential Equations. Section 3.3 SECOND ORDER ODE. Page
147
Problem number: Example 3.17.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-2 y^{\prime }-3 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 17
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-2*diff(y(x),x)-3*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{3 x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-x} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 22
DSolve[y''[x]-2*y'[x]-3*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to e^{-x} \left (c_2 e^{4 x}+c_1\right ) \\ \end{align*}