10.16.2 problem 2

Internal problem ID [1402]
Book : Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section : Chapter 7.6, Complex Eigenvalues. page 417
Problem number : 2
Date solved : Monday, January 27, 2025 at 04:56:47 AM
CAS classification : system_of_ODEs

\begin{align*} \frac {d}{d t}x_{1} \left (t \right )&=-x_{1} \left (t \right )-4 x_{2} \left (t \right )\\ \frac {d}{d t}x_{2} \left (t \right )&=x_{1} \left (t \right )-x_{2} \left (t \right ) \end{align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 45

dsolve([diff(x__1(t),t)=-1*x__1(t)-4*x__2(t),diff(x__2(t),t)=1*x__1(t)-1*x__2(t)],singsol=all)
 
\begin{align*} x_{1} \left (t \right ) &= {\mathrm e}^{-t} \left (c_1 \sin \left (2 t \right )+c_2 \cos \left (2 t \right )\right ) \\ x_{2} \left (t \right ) &= \frac {{\mathrm e}^{-t} \left (-c_1 \cos \left (2 t \right )+c_2 \sin \left (2 t \right )\right )}{2} \\ \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 55

DSolve[{D[ x1[t],t]==-1*x1[t]-4*x2[t],D[ x2[t],t]==1*x1[t]-1*x2[t]},{x1[t],x2[t]},t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 
\begin{align*} \text {x1}(t)\to e^{-t} (c_1 \cos (2 t)-2 c_2 \sin (2 t)) \\ \text {x2}(t)\to \frac {1}{2} e^{-t} (2 c_2 \cos (2 t)+c_1 \sin (2 t)) \\ \end{align*}