Internal problem ID [4792]
Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley.
2006
Section: Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 5. SECOND-ORDER LINEAR
EQUATIONSWITH CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS AND ZERO RIGHT-HAND SIDE. page
414
Problem number: 2.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-4 y^{\prime }+4 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 14
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-4*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{2 x} \left (c_{2} x +c_{1} \right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 18
DSolve[y''[x]-4*y'[x]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to e^{2 x} (c_2 x+c_1) \]