8.1 problem Exercise 21.3, page 231

Internal problem ID [4606]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section: Chapter 4. Higher order linear differential equations. Lesson 21. Undetermined Coefficients
Problem number: Exercise 21.3, page 231.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime }+2 y=4} \]

Solution by Maple

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dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+3*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x)=4,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

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DSolve[y''[x]+3*y'[x]+2*y[x]==4,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 e^{-2 x}+c_2 e^{-x}+2 \]