Internal problem ID [4797]
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: 7.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-5 y^{\prime }+6 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 17
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-5*diff(y(x),x)+6*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{2 x} c_{1} +c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{3 x} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 20
DSolve[y''[x]-5*y'[x]+6*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to e^{2 x} \left (c_2 e^x+c_1\right ) \]