Internal problem ID [698]
Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and
DiPrima
Section: Chapter 3, Second order linear equations, section 3.6, Variation of Parameters. page
190
Problem number: 16.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
\[ \boxed {\left (1-t \right ) y^{\prime \prime }+t y^{\prime }-y=2 \left (-1+t \right )^{2} {\mathrm e}^{-t}} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 25
dsolve((1-t)*diff(y(t),t$2)+t*diff(y(t),t)-y(t) = 2*(t-1)^2*exp(-t),y(t), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (t \right ) = c_{2} t +{\mathrm e}^{t} c_{1} -t \,{\mathrm e}^{-t}+\frac {{\mathrm e}^{-t}}{2} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.07 (sec). Leaf size: 30
DSolve[(1-t)*y''[t]+t*y'[t]-y[t] == 2*(t-1)^2*Exp[-t],y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(t)\to e^{-t} \left (\frac {1}{2}-t\right )+c_1 e^t-c_2 t \]