5.3 problem 3

Internal problem ID [4793]

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: 3.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+9 y^{\prime }=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 12

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+9*diff(y(x),x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} +c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-9 x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 19

DSolve[y''[x]+9*y'[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2-\frac {1}{9} c_1 e^{-9 x} \]