34.9 problem 9

Internal problem ID [11107]

Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section: Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.3-1. Equations with exponential functions
Problem number: 9.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-a y^{\prime }+b \,{\mathrm e}^{2 a x} y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 33

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-a*diff(y(x),x)+b*exp(2*a*x)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {b}\, {\mathrm e}^{a x}}{a}\right )+c_{2} \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {b}\, {\mathrm e}^{a x}}{a}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.061 (sec). Leaf size: 42

DSolve[y''[x]-a*y'[x]+b*Exp[2*a*x]*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {b} e^{a x}}{a}\right )+c_2 \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {b} e^{a x}}{a}\right ) \]