9.9 problem 23

Internal problem ID [2095]

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: 23.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-3 y^{\prime }+y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 27

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-3*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {\left (3+\sqrt {5}\right ) x}{2}}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {\left (\sqrt {5}-3\right ) x}{2}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 35

DSolve[y''[x]-3*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{-\frac {1}{2} \left (\sqrt {5}-3\right ) x} \left (c_2 e^{\sqrt {5} x}+c_1\right ) \]