Internal problem ID [4791]
Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley.
2006
Section: Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 5. SECOND-ORDER LINEAR
EQUATIONSWITH CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS AND ZERO RIGHT-HAND SIDE. page
414
Problem number: 1.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }-2 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 15
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-2 x} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 20
DSolve[y''[x]+y'[x]-2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 e^{-2 x}+c_2 e^x \]