10.8.15 problem 21

Internal problem ID [1287]
Book : Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section : Chapter 3, Second order linear equations, 3.3 Complex Roots of the Characteristic Equation , page 164
Problem number : 21
Date solved : Tuesday, March 04, 2025 at 12:27:55 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }+\frac {5 y}{4}&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=3\\ y^{\prime }\left (0\right )&=1 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 19

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+diff(y(x),x)+5/4*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=y(0) = 3, D(y)(0) = 1; 
dsolve([ode,ic],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x}{2}} \left (5 \sin \left (x \right )+6 \cos \left (x \right )\right )}{2} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 25

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+D[y[x],x]+125/100*y[x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==3,Derivative[1][y][0] ==1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{2} e^{-x/2} (5 \sin (x)+6 \cos (x)) \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.152 (sec). Leaf size: 19

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(5*y(x)/4 + Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 3, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 0): 1} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \left (\frac {5 \sin {\left (x \right )}}{2} + 3 \cos {\left (x \right )}\right ) e^{- \frac {x}{2}} \]