2.3 problem 3

Internal problem ID [12279]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section: Chapter 1. Introduction. Exercises 1.3, page 27
Problem number: 3.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime }-6 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-diff(y(x),x)-6*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{3 x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-2 x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.022 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[y''[x]-y'[x]-6*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{-2 x} \left (c_2 e^{5 x}+c_1\right ) \]