7.14 problem 14

Internal problem ID [612]

Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section: Chapter 3, Second order linear equations, 3.1 Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients, page 144
Problem number: 14.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {2 y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }-4 y=0} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \left (0\right ) = 0, y^{\prime }\left (0\right ) = 1] \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.062 (sec). Leaf size: 30

dsolve([2*diff(y(x),x$2) +diff(y(x),x)-4*y(x) = 0,y(0) = 0, D(y)(0) = 1],y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = -\frac {2 \left (-{\mathrm e}^{\frac {\left (-1+\sqrt {33}\right ) x}{4}}+{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {\left (1+\sqrt {33}\right ) x}{4}}\right ) \sqrt {33}}{33} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.027 (sec). Leaf size: 40

DSolve[{2*y''[x]+y'[x]-4*y[x]==0,{y[0]==0,y'[0]==1}},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {2 e^{-\frac {1}{4} \left (1+\sqrt {33}\right ) x} \left (e^{\frac {\sqrt {33} x}{2}}-1\right )}{\sqrt {33}} \]