11.15 problem 17.3 (c)

Internal problem ID [13273]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section: Chapter 17. Second order Homogeneous equations with constant coefficients. Additional exercises page 334
Problem number: 17.3 (c).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {4 y^{\prime \prime }-4 y^{\prime }+y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 18

dsolve(4*diff(y(x),x$2)-4*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {x}{2}}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {x}{2}} x \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[4*y''[x]-4*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{x/2} (c_2 x+c_1) \]