8.8 problem 14

Internal problem ID [630]

Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section: Chapter 3, Second order linear equations, 3.3 Complex Roots of the Characteristic Equation , page 164
Problem number: 14.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {9 y^{\prime \prime }+9 y^{\prime }-4 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve(9*diff(y(x),x$2) +9*diff(y(x),x)-4*y(x) = 0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {5 x}{3}}+c_{1} \right ) {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {4 x}{3}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 26

DSolve[9*y''[x]+9*y'[x]-4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{-4 x/3} \left (c_2 e^{5 x/3}+c_1\right ) \]