Internal problem ID [4899]
Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley.
2006
Section: Chapter 12, Series Solutions of Differential Equations. Section 1. Miscellaneous problems.
page 564
Problem number: 4, using elementary method.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+4 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 17
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)=-4*y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \sin \left (2 x \right )+c_{2} \cos \left (2 x \right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 20
DSolve[y''[x]==-4*y[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \cos (2 x)+c_2 \sin (2 x) \]