4.36 problem Problem 6(a)

Internal problem ID [12024]

Book: APPLIED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS The Primary Course by Vladimir A. Dobrushkin. CRC Press 2015
Section: Chapter 5.6 Laplace transform. Nonhomogeneous equations. Problems page 368
Problem number: Problem 6(a).
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_linear, `class A`]]

\[ \boxed {10 Q^{\prime }+100 Q=\operatorname {Heaviside}\left (t -1\right )-\operatorname {Heaviside}\left (-2+t \right )} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [Q \left (0\right ) = 0] \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 41

dsolve([10*diff(Q(t),t)+100*Q(t)=Heaviside(t-1)-Heaviside(t-2),Q(0) = 0],Q(t), singsol=all)
 

\[ Q \left (t \right ) = -\frac {\operatorname {Heaviside}\left (t -2\right )}{100}+\frac {\operatorname {Heaviside}\left (t -2\right ) {\mathrm e}^{-10 t +20}}{100}+\frac {\operatorname {Heaviside}\left (t -1\right )}{100}-\frac {\operatorname {Heaviside}\left (t -1\right ) {\mathrm e}^{-10 t +10}}{100} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.052 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[{10*q'[t]+100*q[t]==UnitStep(t-1)-UnitStep(t-2),{q[0]==0}},q[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ q(t)\to \frac {1}{100} e^{-10 t} \left (e^{10 t}-1\right ) \text {UnitStep} \]