9.3 problem 17

Internal problem ID [2089]

Book: Differential Equations by Alfred L. Nelson, Karl W. Folley, Max Coral. 3rd ed. DC heath. Boston. 1964
Section: Exercise 17, page 78
Problem number: 17.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+7 y^{\prime }+12 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+7*diff(y(x),x)+12*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{-3 x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-4 x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[y''[x]+7*y'[x]+12*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{-4 x} \left (c_2 e^x+c_1\right ) \]