Internal problem ID [4632]
Book: Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section: Chapter 4. Higher order linear differential equations. Lesson 22. Variation of
Parameters
Problem number: Exercise 22.2, page 240.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+y=\cot \left (x \right )} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 24
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+y(x)=cot(x),y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{2} \sin \left (x \right )+c_{1} \cos \left (x \right )+\sin \left (x \right ) \ln \left (\csc \left (x \right )-\cot \left (x \right )\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.033 (sec). Leaf size: 33
DSolve[y''[x]+y[x]==Cot[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \cos (x)+\sin (x) \left (\log \left (\sin \left (\frac {x}{2}\right )\right )-\log \left (\cos \left (\frac {x}{2}\right )\right )+c_2\right ) \]