1.75 problem 120

Internal problem ID [12172]

Book: DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS. VOL I. by N. PISKUNOV. MIR PUBLISHERS, Moscow 1969.
Section: Chapter 8. Differential equations. Exercises page 595
Problem number: 120.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-y a^{2}=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 18

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)=a^2*y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.022 (sec). Leaf size: 23

DSolve[y''[x]==a^2*y[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 e^{a x}+c_2 e^{-a x} \]