16.64 problem 537

Internal problem ID [15307]

Book: A book of problems in ordinary differential equations. M.L. KRASNOV, A.L. KISELYOV, G.I. MARKARENKO. MIR, MOSCOW. 1983
Section: Chapter 2 (Higher order ODE’s). Section 15.3 Nonhomogeneous linear equations with constant coefficients. Trial and error method. Exercises page 132
Problem number: 537.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-3 y^{\prime }+2 y=x \,{\mathrm e}^{x}} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 23

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-3*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x)=x*exp(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.039 (sec). Leaf size: 33

DSolve[y''[x]-3*y'[x]+2*y[x]==x*Exp[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{2} e^x \left (-x^2-2 x+2 \left (c_2 e^x-1+c_1\right )\right ) \]