11.7 problem 7

Internal problem ID [2146]

Book: Differential Equations by Alfred L. Nelson, Karl W. Folley, Max Coral. 3rd ed. DC heath. Boston. 1964
Section: Exercise 19, page 86
Problem number: 7.
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: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 27

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.035 (sec). Leaf size: 35

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

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