Internal problem ID [2871]
Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth
edition, 2015
Section: Chapter 10, The Laplace Transform and Some Elementary Applications. Exercises for
10.7. page 704
Problem number: Problem 31.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_linear, `class A`]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime }+3 y=\left \{\begin {array}{cc} 1 & 0\le t <1 \\ 0 & 1\le t \end {array}\right .} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \left (0\right ) = 1] \end {align*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.219 (sec). Leaf size: 41
dsolve([diff(y(t),t)+3*y(t)=piecewise(0<=t and t<1,1,t>=1,0),y(0) = 1],y(t), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (t \right ) = \left \{\begin {array}{cc} {\mathrm e}^{-3 t} & t <0 \\ \frac {2 \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 t}}{3}+\frac {1}{3} & t <1 \\ \frac {2 \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 t}}{3}+\frac {{\mathrm e}^{3-3 t}}{3} & 1\le t \end {array}\right . \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.069 (sec). Leaf size: 47
DSolve[{y'[t]+3*y[t]==Piecewise[{{1,0<=t<1},{0,t >= 1}}],{y[0]==1}},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(t)\to \begin {array}{cc} \{ & \begin {array}{cc} e^{-3 t} & t\leq 0 \\ \frac {1}{3} e^{-3 t} \left (2+e^3\right ) & t>1 \\ \frac {1}{3}+\frac {2 e^{-3 t}}{3} & \text {True} \\ \end {array} \\ \end {array} \]