Internal problem ID [5957]
Book: An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY
1961
Section: Chapter 2. Linear equations with constant coefficients. Page 59
Problem number: 1(a).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-2 y^{\prime }-3 y=0} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \left (0\right ) = 0, y^{\prime }\left (0\right ) = 1] \end {align*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 17
dsolve([diff(y(x),x$2)-2*diff(y(x),x)-3*y(x)=0,y(0) = 0, D(y)(0) = 1],y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 x}}{4}-\frac {{\mathrm e}^{-x}}{4} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 21
DSolve[{y''[x]-2*y'[x]-3*y[x]==0,{y[0]==0,y'[0]==1}},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{4} e^{-x} \left (e^{4 x}-1\right ) \]