48.2.1 problem Example 3.17

Internal problem ID [7517]
Book : THEORY OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS. K.T. CHAU, CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 2018
Section : Chapter 3. Ordinary Differential Equations. Section 3.3 SECOND ORDER ODE. Page 147
Problem number : Example 3.17
Date solved : Monday, January 27, 2025 at 03:04:15 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }-2 y^{\prime }-3 y&=0 \end{align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-2*diff(y(x),x)-3*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 
\[ y = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{-x}+{\mathrm e}^{3 x} c_{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[D[y[x],{x,2}]-2*D[y[x],x]-3*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 
\[ y(x)\to e^{-x} \left (c_2 e^{4 x}+c_1\right ) \]