6.18 problem 18

Internal problem ID [585]

Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section: Miscellaneous problems, end of chapter 2. Page 133
Problem number: 18.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {2 y+y^{\prime }={\mathrm e}^{-x^{2}-2 x}} \]

Solution by Maple

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

dsolve(2*y(x)+diff(y(x),x) = exp(-x^2-2*x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (\frac {\sqrt {\pi }\, \operatorname {erf}\left (x \right )}{2}+c_{1} \right ) {\mathrm e}^{-2 x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.09 (sec). Leaf size: 27

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

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{2} e^{-2 x} \left (\sqrt {\pi } \text {erf}(x)+2 c_1\right ) \]